INstalling apache server - problem

**unclesirbobby** · 10-09-2008

I have tried installing lampp on my new debian system. I went onto lampps website and it recommends typing in the following to intsall the system

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.7.tar.gz -C /opt

the file I downloaded is called

xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.tar

I tried to install the system using

tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.tar -C /opt

It installed so much then came back with the error

invalid compressed data - format violated

I have no experience of using linux so I do not know what tho type in.

***daark.child*** · 10-09-2008

Out of curiosity, why don't you just use Debian packages? It seems like a lot of people struggle with XAMPP when their own distro packages can do the job just fine.

**unclesirbobby** · 10-09-2008

So would I just install a webserver? Will i be able to create php files and also databases?

Is it php4 or php5

***daark.child*** · 10-09-2008

The version of php will depend on the version of Debian. The latest releases, include php5. There is a good tutorial here, that will guide you.

**jledhead** · 10-09-2008

Code:

apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin

that should get you a running amp setup.

**unclesirbobby** · 10-10-2008

Right - I do not really know what I am doing. I typed in the wrong thing. Then decided to go into synaptic package manager. (probably where I went wrong - installing stuff)

Then I typed

apt-get install update

then

apt-get install apache2 php4 libapache2-mod-php4

It then had problems. Can i type in something that will get rid of apache? Then I could install it again.

**jledhead** · 10-10-2008

Originally Posted by unclesirbobby

It then had problems. Can i type in something that will get rid of apache? Then I could install it again.

what kind of problems, errors or something? post that here

get rid of which apache, apt installed or installed from source?

if from apt

Code:

dpkg -P apache2

or

Code:

apt-get remove apache2

**unclesirbobby** · 10-10-2008

I removed apache2 but it told me that it was not there so could not be removed.

Well I then typed the following

debian:~# apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

and got this

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
apache2: Depends: apache2-mpm-worker (= 2.0.54-5sarge2) but it is not going to be installed or
apache2-mpm-prefork (= 2.0.54-5sarge2) but 2.2.3-4+etch4 is to be installed or
apache2-mpm-perchild (= 2.0.54-5sarge2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

***daark.child*** · 10-11-2008

Try the following,

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install -f

After that try installing the webserver packages you need.

**unclesirbobby** · 10-11-2008

Well going back to the origonal method. I just reinstalled debian. Then I downloaded a version of lampp server which is actually called

xampp-linux-1.6.7.tar.gz

It worked this time. I was told that you don't get '.tar.tar' files. So I am not sure where that came from.

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