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 They were always very outdated versions of Drupal.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.
Neil
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Gary Roach gary719_list1@verizon.netwrote:
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. Choose language The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process: In your *./sites/default/settings.php* file you have configured Drupal to use a ** server, however your PHP installation currently does not support this database type.
- Install Drupal in Englishhttp://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&locale=en
- Learn how to install Drupal in other languageshttp://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&localize=true
Please check the error messages and try againhttp://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default .
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.
Any suggestions.
Gary R.
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]