Re: [PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:05 PM, John Iliffe wrote: > type php --version > > There are two - preceding the word version. Apparently, the version of PHP installed on 12.04 accepts "-version". The version of PHP installed on 12.10 does not, and bombs without giving a proper error message. Go

[PHP] PHP fails to install on Ubuntu 12.10. What's going on?

Hi all -- I've got a cloud server on Rackspace. If I bring up a fresh Ubuntu 12.10 machine image, and type "apt-get install php5" it seems to install fine. But if I then type "php -version" I get "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in Command line code on line 1". What