I'm confused about RH8's reply to "rpm -q apache"... 'not installed'

[Patrick Fleming EA]

I think that the current version of PHP uses a different naming scheme and 
what you need is libphp4.so. I believe that this is a recent change from 
mod_php4.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Mark Berkwitt wrote:

> Actually, there were 7 packages required to follow along in the book
> "Beginning PHP4".  Three packages were signaled as not installed. The Apache
> issue was resolved but the other 2 of the 3 missing packages were "gd-devel"
> and "mod_php4". I was wondering if Red Hat had renamed those as well.
> Otherwise, I need first install them.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Austin
> Godber
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: I'm confused about RH8's reply to "rpm -q apache"... 'not
> installed'
> 
> 
> Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> > Thanks.
> > Would the same type of thing apply to the "gd-devel" and "mod_php4"
> > packages?
> 
> I don't know if you are specifically replying to me.  Actually I am not
> sure what you are asking, but rpm -qa | grep <something> is one way to
> search for what packages are installed.
> 
> Example:
> 
> godber@ ~>rpm -qa | grep php
> php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-manual-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-ldap-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-imap-4.2.2-8.0.7
> php-mysql-4.2.2-8.0.7
> 
> godber@ ~>rpm -qa | grep gd-devel
> gd-devel-1.8.4-9
> 
> This shows what packages I have installed that contain the strings php
> and gd-devel in their names.  But you have to have some idea what their
> names are.
> 
> On the otherhand.  If you are using apt on your RedHat machine, then you
> can use apt-cache to search all of the packages descriptions (those
> installed and those not installed).  So if I do:
> 
> godber@ ~>apt-cache search apache
> asp2php - Converts WWW Active Server Pages to PHP pages
> mod_perl - An embedded Perl interpreter for the Apache Web server.
> mod_python - An embedded Python interpreter for the Apache Web server.
> redhat-config-httpd - Apache configuration tool
> httpd - Apache HTTP Server
> httpd-devel - Development tools for the Apache HTTP server.
> httpd-manual - Documentation for the Apache HTTP server.
> mod_ssl - SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server
> php - The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext
> Preprocessor)
> php-imap - An Apache module for PHP applications that use IMAP.
> php-ldap - A module for PHP applications that use LDAP.
> php-pgsql - A PostgreSQL database module for PHP.
> proftpd - A flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP Server.
> 
> Some of these are installed, but all of them are in the apt/rpm
> repository that my apt looks at.
> 
> Austin
> 
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