#!/bin/bash # Posted in: http://community.livejournal.com/ru_ubuntu/433187.html # by Ruben Barkow (rubo77) http://www.entikey.z11.de/ # Originally Posted by Bachstelze http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9080474#post9080474 # OK, here's how to do the Apt magic to get PHP packages from the karmic repositories: if [ "$(whoami &2>/dev/null)" != "root" ] && [ "$(id -un &2>/dev/null)" != "root" ] ; then echo " You must be root to run this script. Run: sudo bash $0 " exit 1 fi echo " OK"; # finish all apt-problems: apt-get -f install # remove all your existing PHP packages. You can list them with dpkg -l| grep php PHPLIST=$(for i in $(dpkg -l | grep php|awk '{ print $2 }' ); do echo $i; done) echo === These packages will be removed: $PHPLIST aptitude remove --purge $PHPLIST #Create a file each in /etc/apt/preferences.d like this (call it for example /etc/apt/preferences.d/php5.2); # #Package: php5 #Pin: release a=karmic #Pin-Priority: 991 # #The big problem is that wildcards don't work, so you will need one such stanza for each PHP package you want to pull from karmic: echo ''>/etc/apt/preferences.d/php5.2 for i in $PHPLIST ; do echo "Package: $i Pin: release a=karmic Pin-Priority: 991 ">>/etc/apt/preferences.d/php5.2; done # duplicate your existing sources.list replacing lucid with karmic and save it in sources.list.d: #sed s/lucid/karmic/g /etc/apt/sources.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic.list # better exactly only the needed sources, cause otherwise you can get a cachsize problem: echo "# needed sources vor php5.2: deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse " >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic.list aptitude update apache2ctl restart echo install new from karmic: aptitude -t karmic install $PHPLIST # at the end retry the modul libapache2-mod-php5 in case it didn't work the first time: aptitude -t karmic install libapache2-mod-php5 apache2ctl restart