On 16/01/2020 17:48, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:43:17PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Well, it seems it's failing because it tries to enable the php7.3
module -- which it can't do, because the module's not THERE.
If it were me, I would attempt to purge this package (not just remove),
and then reinstall it.
The --reinstall should have handled that.
If purging fails because of a2enmod being unable to find the module
and manipulate it in various ways, then it might be necessary to
short-circuit the prerm/postinst/etc. scripts so that they do nothing,
just so you can purge everything.
The normal way to do that with a prerm or postinst script is to stick
"exit 0" near the top of it.
That would be a good approach.
Thanks to all, and especially Roberto, for pointing me in the right
direction.
I did ~# dpkg -P libapache2-mod-php7.3 libapache2-mod-php, because it
reported a dependency on libapache2-mod-php, which went smoothly. I than
did apt-get install libapache2-mod-php, and systemctl restart apache2.
It now runs phpinfo() without problem.
I'm now stuck with my php script in my home being commented out by
Apache, but I'm sure that's just a configuration issue.
Thanks again chaps
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