stuck with YDL 2.3 on older PowerMac

[Derick Centeno]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:45 +0000, Michael Traynor wrote:
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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
> and
> School of Health and Social Sciences,
> Middlesex University
> 
> www.obliquepanic.co.uk

Unfortunately Mike, you'll have to deal with the dependency issues of
each package as long as you stay that far back.  You may also have to
stay there because of the hardware you are using; maybe not.  You didn't
provide any information regarding your hardware; if the hardware is not
antiquated and unsupported by TSS for the current version of YDL you
could be in luck and be able to move all the way up to what is current.

That would resolve a lot of the difficulties you face now.  Remember
that most projects abandon packages and modules as they also need to
improve coding, security and other issues. Depending on what you are
doing it may be in your interest to "stay put" or "move up", as  usual
with all technologies only you can make that evaluation for your
particular environment and function.

By the way, if rpm is reporting you need other packages, then you need
them and it is up to you to find and install each one.  

So evaluate your situation regarding work, financing/budget, function
and so on and what you can and need to do should become clear in that
context.

Best of luck ...