Andrew, thank you so much. I never heard about the Debian 'alternatives' system, but this is obviously what's meant to control this behavior.
>From the man page, this is the output for php: cn2:/etc/php5/apache2# update-alternatives --display php php - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/php4 /usr/bin/php4 - priority 40 slave php.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/php4.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/php4. cn2:/etc/php5/apache2# Is it odd that php5 doesn't appear anywhere? I would have thought that php5 would have been loaded in this system based on it's successful installation. Thanks, again. I'm not sure about the wisdom of changing abruptly from php4 to 5, as you noted, but want to learn how to do it when the time comes. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to switch from php4 to php5 when upgrading to etch? I'm not qualified to answer this in terms of php4 -> 5 transition of compatibility, but, on the assumption that you can just transition then: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:52:52PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > I just upgraded my server from sarge to etch. Everything seemed to go > well. php5 was installed. However, php4 still seems to be used by > default: > cn2:/etc/alternatives# ls -la `which php` > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 11 2006 /usr/bin/php -> > /etc/alternatives/php > cn2:/etc/alternatives# ls -l /etc/alternatives/php > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 19 13:32 /etc/alternatives/php -> > /usr/bin/php4 this is the crucial line. man update-alternatives. I leave the wisdom of such a move to you. A
