I did try to uninstall php5 first but it gave me the following error and didn't look as though it understood the uninstall command: sudo /opt/local/bin/port uninstall php5 Password: Error: port uninstall failed: invalid command name "portuninstall::uninstall" So, addressing you comments..
I am sorry, if I am wrong, but I understand that you tried to install php5 +mysql5 &c while having php5 +mysql4 installed?
I used the clean argument like you mentioned for php5, pcre, and expat. And as I said above i tried an uninstall and it failed.. so i deactivated php5 and tried to install a new version of php5
It is also hard to understand, where does pcre @4.5_0 come from.
I have no idea what pcre has to do with a php5 install but when i tried running the php5 install command that was one of the items that threw the " Image error: Another version of this port (pcre @4.5_0) is already active." error. For that reason I mentioned that in my original email but like I said I don't know what the relationship between that and php5 (if there is one). I am running 10.4.9, MacPorts 1.442, Xcode 2.4.1. I really appreciate your help since I am relatively new to macports and am a little frustrated at this point. Thanks for the prompt response! Evan On 6/2/07, Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa@macports.org> wrote:
On 2.6.2007, at 16.49, Evan Burrows wrote:
Sorry,
I am sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer on google. I currently had a php5 port that had the mysql4 variant installed. I want to add support for mysql5 instead so i tried upgrading with little luck. I installed mysql5 fine and then deactivated mysql4 with no problem. When I try to then install a new version of php5 using port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +pear I end up getting errors after waiting a very long time for things to compile. The typical error is:
Error: Activating pcre 7.1_1 failed: Image error: Another version of this port (pcre @4.5_0) is already active. or Error: Deactivating expat 1.95.7_0 failed: Image error: expat @1.95.7_0 not installed as an image.
but in place of expat when i tried to install the php5 directly it gave an error about pcre. I then tried to upgrade all my updated ports using port upgrade outdated and some were successful while others got similar errors as described above? What is causing this problem and how do I go about fixing it because of of right now my LAMP install is busted and I can't get anything accomplished until i resolve the php5 issue. Any information would be greatly appreciated and if I missed providing any important information please ask and I will gladly supply it.
Thanks, Evan
Hi, I am sorry, if I am wrong, but I understand that you tried to install php5 +mysql5 &c while having php5 +mysql4 installed? If you change variants, you ought to uninstall first, sorry for that. It is also hard to understand, where does pcre @4.5_0 come from. You could: - look at what you have installed with 'port installed' (or e.g. port installed name:php) - port clean --all expat (, and pcre and php5) - uninstall expat, pcre, and php5 (use -f if necessary) - install them again
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