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Idea #19475: Make the "LAMP Server" task package more extensive

Written by dsavi the 27 Apr 09 at 12:58. Category: Server. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In Synaptic, selecting the LAMP Server task in Edit -> Mark packages by task means installing only the core packages. This is fine except that it means that you can not for example use PHP and MySQL together without installing php5-mysql. Likewise you do not have GD2 (Absolutely necessary for generating real CAPTCHA) or Sqlite, both of which are included by default in the binary distribution of PHP5.

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Solution #1: Add php5-mysql, php5-sqlite, php-pear, and php5-gd to "LAMP Server"
Written by dsavi the 27 Apr 09 at 12:58.
Edit: Here look I'll get a bit more to the point. Without php5-mysql PHP can NOT communicate with mysql databases at all. Period. Unless you want to write the functions yourself. ;-) The following solution fixes that.

The resulting package downloads should additionally install:

php-pear
php5-mysql
php5-sqlite
php5-gd

Basically everything needed for a plain-vanilla phpBB3 installation with decent CAPTCHA, and support for PEAR modules in PHP.

This will mean that the original point of the LAMP Server task will be fulfilled, that is, being able to use PHP with MySQL on an Apache2 server.

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