Ubuntu users in Ontario, Canada?

[volksman]

geo wrote:
> You would think that when going to Synaptic, searching for "php" or 
> "php5" would automatically choose the correct components - yet these 
> were clearly not installed.
>
> If these are required, yet not installed while others are installed, 
> then something is in error in the Synaptic listing and how it 
> cross-references packages to files and I don't know why. It would take 
> a computer to remember all of these odd file names, there's no way a 
> human being could do it.
>
Again everything is modular.  If all YOU need is php then that's all you 
get.  However most CMS systems require additional PHP libraries and 
modules that aren't part of the core language.  So you need to add those 
manually as you require them.  Personally I prefer to just install the 
more common ones and not have to deal with it again.  For example 
php-mcrypt installs the mcrypt php module.  What is mcrypt?  dunno.  
Something to do with encrypting and decrypting data.  php-curl allows 
you to call curl in PHP as a function.  php-sqlite is a module that 
allows connectivity to sqlite DBs from PHP.  So you don't necessarily 
NEED them all but the ones I asked you to install will avoid hassle in 
the future.
> That "rapache" sounds like a great idea! I hope it develops well.
>
> I've been wrestling with this for the past 3 weeks now (yup, 3 weeks) 
> and it's taken a lot of time away from my wife and family, my evenings 
> and weekends. I would keep asking for more detail, more clarity at the 
> launchpad help site and all I would get is more tutorials which I 
> couldn't possibly even begin to understand.
>
> After this length of time someone finally told me there are mailing 
> lists! Who knew!
>
> I have Synaptic installing these packages now (except for the one 
> php5-json because it simply does not show up when I search for it). 
> I'll try this and see if anything - ANYTHING - works at all. You can't 
> imagine how frustrating it is when everyone tells you it should work 
> and the darned software makes a liar out of everyone and simply 
> refuses to do anything, it's enough to make you throw the computer 
> into the lake!
>
We have all been there at one point or another......   :)