CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

After just upgrading my Ubuntu development workstation from Ubuntu Karmic to Lucid, I found that Civi was giving some errors and I realized that the culprit was the fact that the 9.10 -> 10.04 upgrade process upgraded my php packages from 5.2 to 5.3, rendering my server incompatible with CiviCRM.

Here are the steps I took to fix it (from the bash command line):

php_packages=`dpkg -l | grep php | awk '{print $2}'`

sudo apt-get remove $php_packages

sed s/lucid/karmic/g /etc/apt/sources.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic.list

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/preferences.d/

for package in $php_packages;
do echo "Package: $package
Pin: release a=karmic
Pin-Priority: 991
" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/php
done

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install $php_packages

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

I'm not guaranteeing these steps will work for you (be careful here!), but they did it for me!

Nice one, Sean.

Can you explain how one undoes this once CiviCRM becomes 5.3 compliant?

Is it as simple as ...
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic.list
rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade



Ken