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

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > Remember to hit reply-all, Andy, so it goes to the list as well as > the previous author. > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Bergstresser <chris@subtlety.com> wrote: >>>> 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 went wrong? How can I fix it? >> >> I'm pretty sure the php5 package in ubuntu doesn't include the cli >> client. Try adding apt-get install php5-cli (or whatever they're >> calling the package these days) and see if the version command works >> then. Also, you may need a second hyphen before the word version. > > Yes, it would be php5-cli, but since he's getting the response > from PHP (parse error) and not the environment saying the command > isn't found, it shows he's got the CLI installed. Ubuntu is actually > really helpful with a lot of that, too, since - if it can't find the > command - it'll suggest packages from APT to install which match the > command given. > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/ Can I just mention, as so many others have, how much I hate the fact that this list is configured to not reply to the list by default? Thanks for forwarding this on to the right address, Dan. -Andy