libapache2-mod-security

[Tom H]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Richard Gliebe <richard.gliebe at fhv.at> wrote:
> On 4/11/10 12:17 PM Tom H wrote:
>
>> Sorry. I did not look at your sources the first time around so I did
>> not realize that you are running Hardy.
>>
>> See
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/400006
>> and
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libapache-mod-security/
>
> thanks for the links, but libapache-mod-security failed due to some
> *old* packages, which I'm not able to update.
>
> # dpkg -i libapache-mod-security_2.5.11-1_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package libapache-mod-security.
> (Reading database ... 22943 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libapache-mod-security (from
> libapache-mod-security_2.5.11-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libapache-mod-security:
>  libapache-mod-security depends on libxml2 (>= 2.7.4); however:
>   Version of libxml2 on system is 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.4.
>  libapache-mod-security depends on libpcre3 (>= 7.7); however:
>   Version of libpcre3 on system is 7.4-1ubuntu2.1.
> dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-security (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libapache-mod-security

You could try installing the dependencies (and hope that they will not
have dependencies of their own!) but I would not do this on a live
system just in case it dies...