Installing Smarty tries to uninstall PHP5

[Tim Frost]

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 14:33 +0100, Daniel Callejas Sevilla wrote:
> 2005/12/25, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com>:
> > Most likely the package was simply compiled to depend on php4 even
> > though it can depend on php5. This si normal. If the maintainer only had
> > php4 on his computer, then it would compile qutomatically like this.
> >
> 
> Thanks for your explanation. Should I anyhow notify the maintainer about this?
> 

No.  The breezy package depends on php4 or php5:
tim at marvin:~$ apt-cache show smarty
Package: smarty
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 784
Maintainer: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine at cvf.fr>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.6.9-1
Depends: debconf, php4 | php4-cli | php4-cgi | php5 | php5-cgi |
php5-cli

php5 is available (it is a meta-package, and apparently hasn't been
installed), and depends on either libapache2-mod-php5 (which you have)
or php5-cgi.

Try installing php5 before installing smarty.