PHP5 packages can be installed on one 16.04 system but not on another

[Chris Green]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:37:34AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 May 2016 at 11:16, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > I have two xubuntu 16.04 systems both with LAMP server software on
> > them.  On one I can see and successfully install a number of PHP5
> > packages, in particular php5-sqlite, on the other it can't see this
> > package at all using apt-search or synaptic.
> >
> > I have checked through all the repsitories in /etc/apt and, as far as
> > I can see, they're identical.
> >
> > What is wrong?  I need php5-sqlite on both systems.
> 
> On the one where you *have* successfully installed the package what do
> you see if you run, in a terminal
> apt-cache policy php5-sqlite
> 
chris at t430$ apt-cache policy php5-sqlite
php5-sqlite:
  Installed: 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.3
  Candidate: 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.3
  Version table:
 *** 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.3 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Chris Green