Help with php4-common

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:39:02 -0700, Ryan Thiessen
<ryanthiessen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install the popular web application framework Horde on
> my Ubuntu server, but I am coming across some odd problems that seem
> difficult to overcome.  An integral component of the program, imp3,
> depends on php4-imap which depends on php4-common which is not
> available.  It seems that in Debian Sid php4 is packaged as
> "php4-common" with a metapackage "php4", while in Ubuntu the master
> package is just simply php4 and there is no php4-common package that I
> can find.  This makes any package that depends on php4-common to be
> uninstallable.

I knew I had read something about php4 recently.

According to to the wiki
(http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/WartyWarthog_2fUpgradeNotes)
"php4 is superseded by libapache2-mod-php4"