Hi, Thank you for quick response. I updated the entire machine, I have php43 installed at /usr/local/. But following your suggestion, I installed the php4 debian package as well, this time the error message is different. Here it is:
Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmm13 Suggested packages: php4-pear The following NEW packages will be installed: libmm13 php4 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 794kB of archives. After unpacking 1831kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main libmm13 1.3.0-1 [15.4kB] Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main php4 4:4.3.3-4 [778kB] Fetched 794kB in 9s (84.6kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libmm13. (Reading database ... 63872 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmm13 (from .../libmm13_1.3.0-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package php4. Unpacking php4 (from .../php4_4%3a4.3.3-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up apache (1.3.29.0.1-3) ... Starting web server: apache failed invoke-rc.d: initscript apache, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing apache (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libapache-mod-perl (1.29.0.1-3) ... Setting up apache-perl (1.3.29.0.1-3) ... Starting web server: apache-perlProcessing config directory: /etc/apache-perl/conf.d