stuck with YDL 2.3 on older PowerMac

[Michael Traynor]

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Dear All,
I have been running an old world Mac clone with YDL 2.3 for a year or  
so as a web server (I had a problem installing from the 3.0.1 CDs at  
the time and only 2.3. installed properly - that's another story).  
Recently I wanted to install Wordpress bloging software on the server  
but discovered that PHP and Mysql weren't talking to eachother  
properly (I think there was no php-mysql module). So, struggling all  
the way I have been trying to upgrade what I have, first using apt- 
get which seemed to do lots of updating then downloaded RPMs of the  
versions of Apache, Mysql and PHP from the YDL 3 repositories. When I  
tried to install them, I got lots of dependency  errors for various  
libraries and other files - just when I was feeling optimistic and  
that I had learnt something.  Should I now download and try to  
install all the files that rpm says I need or will I end up just with  
more dependency problems?

All I really wanted to do was get php and mysql working together  
properly... but an upgrade seemed a good idea at the time.

thanks to anyone that has a view on this,
Michael

Michael Traynor
ObliquePanic
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School of Health and Social Sciences,
Middlesex University

www.obliquepanic.co.uk