Newbie V.S. apt-get

[whitnelson]

Hello -
I am new to Debian, and I've run into some issues trying to install mysql5 with apt-get. I recently put Debian on a PowerPC mac, and installing mysql4 is fairly easy with apt-get, but not so with mysql5. I edited the sources.list file to include these:

deb http://backports.org/debian sarge-backports main
deb-src http://backports.org/debian sarge-backports main

And then I ran:

apt-get update

So far, so good. Running:

apt-cache search mysql-server

Returns:

mysql-server - mysql database server (meta package depending on the latest version)
mysql-server-4.1 - mysql database server (transitional package)
mysql-server-5.0 - mysql database server binaries

So 5.0 appears to be available. Alrighty. So I run:

apt-get install mysql-server-5.0

Which gives the following problems:

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mysql-server-5.0: Depends: mysql-client-5.0 (>= 5.0.30-1~bpo.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmysqlclient15off (>= 5.0.24-2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) but 2.0-7 is to be installed
PreDepends: mysql-common (>= 5.0.30-1~bpo.1) but 4.0.24-10sarge2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Can anyone assist me with this? I simply don't know what's going on here ...

Thanks in advance,

-- whit

[Vergil83]

try

apt-get -t sarge-backports install mysql-server-5.0

http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions

[whitnelson]

Many thanks.

-- whit

[whitnelson]

Hello again,
I'm having a similar problem, that the previous solution can't fix. In addition to mysql5, I also need php5. So I am trying to install it using the same methods:

deb http://backports.org/debian sarge-backports main
deb-src http://backports.org/debian sarge-backports main

In the sources.list file.

$ apt-get update

works great.

$ apt-cache search php5

returns:

php5 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (meta-package)

as one of the results. Awesome.

$ apt-get install php5

gives 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libapache-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

As expected. So I tried the suggested command, (which worked great for mysql, btw) and I get what appears to be the same error.

$ apt-get -t sarge-backports install php5
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libapache-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Can anyone point my in the right direction? Thanks very much, in advance.

-- whit

[whitnelson]

Is there any other information that I could supply that might help to diagnose the problem? Anywhere I should look?

-- whit

[Vergil83]

that is because that package requires several others from backports. So try

apt-get -t sarge-backports install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 libapache-mod-php5 php5-cgi php5-common

[whitnelson]

That gave:
$ apt-get -t sarge-backports install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 libapache-mod-php5 php5-cgi php5-common

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:
php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 is to be installed or
libapache-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 is to be installed or
php5-cgi (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 is to be installed
Depends: php5-common (>= 5.2.0-8~bpo.2) but 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Vergil83]

you might try the other method on the link from above and include all those files.