Hi David! On 2/5/22 23:30, David Brown wrote: > New to posting here, so please excuse my dumb questions.
No worries, that's what the list here is for :-). > I finally got Debian working on my Powermac G5. Since it appears this > is bleeding edge version (SID) it installed PHP 8.1. I have apps that > will not run on that php version. Is there any archive(?) available to > download and install an older php version? Yes, you can use the website snapshot.debian.org which exists for this very reason: > http://snapshot.debian.org/ Please follow the instructions and search for the "php7.0", "php7.1" or "php7.4" packages. If you run into any problems, please post your questions to the list. > Why is there there not a “stable” version available? For being able to provide a stable release, we need an instance of the Britney service [1] which provides testing migration and quality assurance. We don't have that for Debian Ports, yet, unfortunately. It's a long-time goal to achieve that, however. > Thanks for the efforts to keep Debian available for this old hardware. You're welcome. Adrian > [1] https://release.debian.org/doc/britney/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913