On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:53:19PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists > > I downloaded a small free software from the following location: > > http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Scientific-Engineering-Ruby/Chemistry/McCabe-Thiele-Method-for-an-Ideal-Binary-Mixture-31835.html > > I unzipped it and three little files appeared. > > Two look like PHP files. They have the file extension .m. > > The other file is a gif file and is probably some sample graphical output. > > My dumb question for the day is: > > > How do I call up php e.g. at a terminal window and then get it to execute > the .m files? > > Is php automatically installed in a bog standard etch desktop installation?
apt-cache search is your friend. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search php interpreter gs-esp - The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP version kmflcomp - KMFL Compiler libapache-mod-suphp - Apache module to run php scripts with the owner permissions libapache2-mod-suphp - Apache2 module to run php scripts with the owner permissions libkmflcomp0 - KMFL compiler library php5 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (meta-package) php5-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) php5-cli - command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language scummvm - free implementation of LucasArts' S.C.U.M.M interpreter suphp-common - Common files for mod suphp apt-cache show php5-cli.... probably not installed. A
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