php4-mysql missing in Ubuntu?

Mario Guerra guerramarioalberto at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 17:23:57 UTC 2005


2005/8/4, Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com>:
> On 8/4/05, Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's in the Ubuntu universe repository.
> >
> > I wonder if, perhaps, Sebastian was commenting to the fact that if
> > something is in the Universe repository, it's not officially supported
> > by Ubuntu.
> 
> Yes. It was not a technical question, was more from phylosophical
> point of view. If you want to setup a LAMP server, you CAN NOT do it
> using only Ubuntu packages (since you need php4-mysql package). So you
> can't deploy a fully supported LAMP server in Ubuntu :(
> 

You can. Activate the Universe repository and download the
corresponding package. It works (I' ve used it for installing the
"cacti" network monitoring tool).

Anyway, it's a strange muisance. Possibly a mishap......

-- 
Mario A. Guerra
San José, Costa RIca




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