package management help

2011-10-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Symptoms: I've never used apache2 on the machine in question. I use lighttpd. "aptitude show apache2" tells me apache2 is not installed. Package: apache2 State: not installed Version: 2.2.16-6+squeeze4 Priority: optional Section: httpd Maintainer: Debian Apache Maintainers Uncompressed Size: 36.

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I would try the following: - to find out what is installed aptitude search '~iapache' - why it is installed aptitude why apache2-mpm-worker maybe this one is only recommended by another package - and what depends on this package aptitude search '~i~Dapache2-mpm-worker' - finally,

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Bernd Semler
Stan Hoeppner schrieb am 14.10.2011 23:53 -0500: > The problem: > ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > The following packages will be upgraded: > apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common > > This has gone on for many years, including when the system

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:53:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Symptoms: > I've never used apache2 on the machine in question. I use lighttpd. > "aptitude show apache2" tells me apache2 is not installed. > > Package: apache2 > State: not installed (...) > The problem: > ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade >

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 4:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > What does "dpkg -l|grep -i apache" say? ii apache2-mpm-prefork2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2-utils 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2.2-bin 2.2.16-6+squeeze1 ii apache2.2-common 2.2.16

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:06:48 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/15/2011 4:40 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> What does "dpkg -l|grep -i apache" say? > (...) > ii libapache2-mod-php55.3.3-7+squeeze3 (...) There you have it. "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-pref

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 3:56 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I would try the following: > > - to find out what is installed > aptitude search '~iapache' i apache2-mpm-prefork i apache2-utils i apache2.2-bin i apache2.2-common i libapache2-mod-php5 > - why it is installed > aptitude why ap

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 4:00 AM, Bernd Semler wrote: > aptitude why $packagename ~$ aptitude why apache2 --show-summary Packages requiring apache2: phpsysinfo > and/or in combination with --show-summary (there is an example in the > man page). > > Another proposal is: > > apt-cache rdepends $package

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Stan Hoeppner wrote: >~$ aptitude why apache2 >i phpsysinfo Depends apache2 | httpd > >phpsysinfo seems to have a false dependency--appears the package >maintainer assumes the only httpd server on earth is apache2... This shows that the phpsysinfo dependency is also fulfilled by httpd, which is

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:45:11 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > So, if I'm reading this correctly, and these aren't phantom > dependencies, if one wishes to run php5 with lighttpd, one has to have > all of apache2 installed also? Is that correct? That seems strange to > have one httpd so entir

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > There you have it. > > "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also > "apache2.2-common". > > Now you have to find out why "libapache2-mod-php5" got installed in your > system because it's an Apache 2 module. T

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> There you have it. >> >> "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also >> "apache2.2-common". >> >> Now you have to find out why "libapache2-mod-php5" got inst

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/15/11 13:16: > On 10/15/2011 3:56 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> I would try the following: >> >> - to find out what is installed >> aptitude search '~iapache' > > i apache2-mpm-prefork > i apache2-utils > i apache2.2-bin > i apache2.2-common > i libapache

Re: package management help

2011-10-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/15/2011 7:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> There you have it. >>> >>> "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache2-mpm-prefork" and also >>> "apache2.2-common". >>> >>> Now you hav

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache > rc apache2.2-common > rc libapache2-mod-php5 > rc libapr1 > rc libaprutil1 > > What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed > now, but these 4 still show up. Is there something

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/15/2011 7:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >>> On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> There you have it. "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/16/11 05:00: > Moving forward... I removed all of the apache2 junk with > '--purge-unused', ran aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade, and > none of the apache2 junk shows up in the upgrade list, which was the > original immediate goal here. I've probably got more c

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 3:51 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache >> rc apache2.2-common >> rc libapache2-mod-php5 >> rc libapr1 >> rc libaprutil1 >> >> What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed >> now,

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Which is fine. What problem are you seeing here? > > "php5" is a metapackage that requires to install *one of these* packages: > > a) libapache2-mod-php5 (or) > b) libapache2-mod-php5filter (or) > c) php5-cgi > > You only have to do the right selection b

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> No need to be a jedi, just put care in what the installer is telling >> you. >> >> When you run apt-get or aptitude to install "roundcube-core" and you >> see a set of packages named "apac

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 22:23:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm no package management expert. I only install packages when I need > new capabilities, or when doing security updates. I discovered during > this apache2 troubleshooting that I had 1.6GB of .deb files in the apt > package cache. I

Re: package management help

2011-10-17 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:10 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > Which is fine. What problem are you seeing here? > > > > "php5" is a metapackage that requires to install *one of these* packages: > > > > a) libapache2-mod-php5 (or) > > b) libapache2-mod-ph