php question

[Colin Law]

On 2 November 2014 21:45, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Still running 10.04.4 LTS here, on amd phenom etc, but with a 3.16.0
> pae/smp kernel.
>
> I need to access a web page for the better half that makes heavy use of
> php.
>
> Is there a single package in the 10.04.4 repo's that will pull in and
> install enough dependencies to make the site work?
>
> Looking in the repo it looks as if there must be 500 megabytes of php
> related stuff, but no one package called php5. :(

When you say 'access' a web page do you mean you want to provide a
server that will supply that web page?  If so then you will need a web
server such as apache. See [1] for how to do that.

Colin

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

Colin