I get it. But for a moment I'd like to ask you to consider usabilty of this
package from the point of view of a typical installer. (Comments welcome ;-)
There are a number of problems with trying to get moodle to work out of the
box:
1. The information given in the README.Debian (which is where
Moodle in both Debian and Ubuntu uses postgresql by default. If someone
wants mysql, they will have to do more work. Basically, they will need
to do something like:
sudo aptitude install moodle mysql-server php5-mysql
If they do this, neither postgresql or php5-pgsql will be installed and
moodle
It appears to only affect the mysql-server choice. The postgres choice is
fine.
You were right to suggest the /var/log/dpkg.log file, it shows that the
php5-mysql package was not installed with moodle. Examining the moodle
control file, I see that it uses the expression:
Depends: ... php5-pgsq
I can't duplicate this bug on a new Karmic install followed by sudo
aptitude install moodle. Moodle appears to work just fine without php-
db. Did you do anything unusual when attempting to install moodle? Did
you choose postgresql or mysql ?
Could you please attach a copy of /var/log/dpkg.log ?
Steps to replicate:
1. install fresh karmic ubuntu on a new box.
2. apt-get install moodle
3. navigate to 'http://localhost/moodle'
** ALL MOODLE PAGES ARE BLANK, on my tests.
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moodle package is lacking critical dependancy on php-db
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463381
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