On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > I thought all you had to do was install (and configure) > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/php3_3.0.5-3.deb > to get php3 to work.
Could be. Seems I read somewhere that apache had to be compiled with php3 support. I guess slink's apache is. > On the systems I've used it on, all I did was install it, uncomment the > php3 line from apaches config file, and edit the php3 config file so it > could find the rest of the php3 stuff I'd installed. I haven't tried > php3 on a slink system so I don't know if there is much more to do to > get it to work. Are you saying that doesn't work under slink or is there > a benefit of compiling from scratch? This could very well work, and does, obviously, if you've done it. As for any benefits, I don't know. > Anyway, If you mark the package to be Purged instead of removed it'll > remove the config files also. If you're REALLY paranoid about this stuff > you could always make a backup copy of the config files... Yeah, I know purge would remove them, I just wanted to make sure the 'remove' wouldn't. I don't think a backup will be necessary, I'll just fetch the php3 package from slink. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------ hypnos <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
