cant start apache2

[Derek Broughton]

Gerald Dachs wrote:

> Am Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:14:21 +0100
> schrieb "dave selby" <dave6502 at googlemail.com>:
> 
>> OK realy simple problem (long history I won't go into) why cant I
>> start apache2 ?
> 
> Maybe you didn't install it?
> 
>> root at dave-desktop:/etc/init.d# aptitude install apache2
>>   apache2
> ...
>> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
>> upgraded. Need to get 0B/38.7kB of archives. After unpacking 86.0kB
> 
> This is not enough, look at this:
> 
> # dpkg -l|grep apache2
> ii  apache2                      2.2.3-3.2ubuntu0.1
> Next generation, scalable, extendable web se ii
> apache2-mpm-prefork          2.2.3-3.2ubuntu0.1
> Traditional model for Apache HTTPD 2.1 ii  apache2-utils
> 2.2.3-3.2ubuntu0.1                     utility programs for webservers
> ii  apache2.2-common             2.2.3-3.2ubuntu0.1
> Next generation, scalable, extendable web se
> 
> This is the minimum you should have installed.

And if they _weren't_ installed, aptitude would have installed them.
-- 
derek