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Matthew Macdonald-WallaceNov 13, 2007 1:07 pm 
Kris MarshNov 13, 2007 1:24 pm 
Matthew Macdonald-WallaceNov 13, 2007 1:43 pm 
Colin WatsonNov 14, 2007 9:27 pm 
Subject:Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues with APT installing dependencies?
From:Kris Marsh (moog@gmail.com)
Date:Nov 13, 2007 1:24:36 pm
List:com.ubuntu.lists.ubuntu-uk

On Nov 13, 2007 9:07 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matt@truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:

Hi all,

Since I've upgraded to Gutsy, I've noticed an interesting change in behaviour with apt.

If I run

apt-get install php5-mysql

it doesn't install everything that's required (such as apache2/modphp/mysql-server etc), just a very basic set of dependencies.

PHPGroupWare is another good example of this, it only installed the web interface. Once I had logged in, all I had was the "admin" screen - no email, nothing.

Is this just me, or is it a "feature" of apt these days?

Cheers,

Hi Matthew,

php5-mysql doesn't require apache to run, nor mysql server. It does depend on both php5-common and libmysqlclient15off, however.

Lets say I wanted to write a command line php application that ran every 1hr, and sent a log to a remote mysql server... I wouldn't want to install apache2 and mysql-server just to allow this.

Cheers, Kris