I've installed Drupal many times on Debian servers (I also built the servers) and I've never even thought about trying to install from .deb using apt. They were always very outdated versions of Drupal. Install Drupal from the tar file according to the Drupal install instructions on a Debian server and it will work like a charm.<br>
<br>Neil<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Gary Roach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary719_list1@verizon.net">gary719_list1@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I am trying to get a Debian Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP5 system going.
All of the instructions that I find assume that I am installing from a
tar file or some such. Debian installs everything, including the config
files, automatically. The Dbian installation differs significantly from
the documentation. I finally got Apache2, MySQL and
/drupal6/install.php running but immediately got the install.php error
shown below.<br>
<h2>Choose language</h2>
<h3>The following error must be resolved before you can continue the
installation process:</h3>
<div><font color="#ff0000">In your <i>./sites/default/settings.php</i>
file you have configured Drupal to use a <i></i> server, however
your PHP installation currently does not support this database type.</font></div>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&locale=en" target="_blank">Install
Drupal in English</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&localize=true" target="_blank">Learn
how to install Drupal in other languages</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Please check the error messages and <a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default" target="_blank">try again</a>.<br>
</p>
<p>When I finally found settings.php, the file had been automatically
generated by the .deb installation script. There is nothing obviously
wrong with it. Debian notes say to use install.php at this point to
populate the data tables. Obviously this is not going to happen until
the above error is fixed. <br>
</p>
<p>Any suggestions.<br>
</p>
<p>Gary R.<br>
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