problems making a dsl of apache

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: problems making a dsl of apache
started by: ico2

Posted by ico2 on Aug. 07 2004,10:07

perl depends on perl modules being already installed and perl modules depends on perl being installed.

trying to install apache (so i can create a dsl of it) but i am having the problem above.

is there an older version of 1 of them that i can install to make the other install and then install the new 1?

Posted by chibiace on Aug. 07 2004,15:29

it doesnt work if you install perl? :S (doesnt know anything anyway)

Posted by clacker on Aug. 07 2004,23:43

ico2, I was able to load apache using apt-get OK using a LiveCD boot of DSL vers 0.7.3. Did you change your /etc/apt/sources.list file from stable to unstable (in the second line)? Some installs are a problem that way. If you have you heart set on removal, you could try apt-get remove perl. From the live CD, I did the following:

<started up a clean version of DSL version 0.7.3>
<loaded dsl-dpkg.dsl using emelfm>
<opened a bash shell>
sudo su
scite /etc/apt/sources.list <changing the second line from "stable" to "unstable">
apt-get update
< because I was running from the liveCD, here I ran my enableuser.sh script (see < SSH and adduser >). If your running from the hard drive you might not need to do that>
apt-get cron <I had to get this first to make things work, but again, that might have been a liveCD thing>
apt-get apache
<during the configuration (debconf) I chose dialog-medium-no suExec>

and I was up and running. I typed apache, then went to Dillo and put in localhost as the website, and up came the apache page. I got no errors about overwritting perl or perl-modules.

Good luck on making the DSL. I look forward to it. I think it might be harder than running the deb2dsl script because a lot of things seem to get configured, and cron adds a group to groups.

Posted by clacker on Aug. 08 2004,00:16

sorry, apt-get cron and apt-get apache really were:

apt-get install cron
apt-get install apache

Posted by mpie on Aug. 08 2004,00:29

yep I too have had no problems....its all about sources lists with apt.........get the write combo and anything that is a deb package is within reach!!!!

Posted by clacker on Aug. 08 2004,01:06

oh, and I also forgot to add that I ran the gnu-utils.dsl right after the dsl-dpkg.dsl. If I didn't do that cron didn't work.

Posted by ico2 on Aug. 08 2004,18:39

i just went using windows (have a winmodem so i can't get online with linux yet) and downloaded apache and all the dependancies not catered for and all of their dependancies, i tried installing them all 1 by one, i think it was apache-common that required perl and perl required perl modules and perl modules required perl, i tried installing perl and perl modules in different order and even highlighting both with emelfm and opening with dpkg -i .
i have sorta given up with apache now and have made a whole load of other dsls instead.

thanks
ico2