Hi Alex, Thanks very much. I didn't know about apt pinning so I will investigate further and try and apply it to a downgraded version of PHP and apache so that my mapscript will be compatible.
Much appreciated Dylan On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 00:42 -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 01/22/2014 11:11 PM, Dylan Rawlins wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I submitted this under a different thread last week but I see that it > > pertains to the issues raised in this thread as well. > > > > I am running Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) and it automatically updated my > > apache to 2.4.6. That caused my PHP version to stop working correctly so > > I upgraded that to PHP 5.5.7. > > > > I managed to get PHP and apache working but the installation of > > php5-mapscript broke. I purged it and attempted to reinstall but got the > > following error message: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > php5-mapscript : Depends: phpapi-20090626 > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > This seems to be a recurring problem with other php packages but I > > haven't been able to find any solutions yet. Is it possible that I will > > need to revert to using FGS Mapserver as at least it isn't subject to > > updates? Obviously not an ideal option as it is already very outdated > > but it would get me up and running again. > > > > > > Many thanks in advance > > > > Dylan > > > > You can always opt out of a particular upgrade with apt pinning. > In the meantime you might want to ppa-purge or revert your php. I > understand a fix for the apache issue should be available soon. > > This is part of the reason we have a stable repo. If you don't want to > be caught be upgrades your not expecting. You could also change your apt > preferences to only take security updates too. > > Thanks, > Alex >
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