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 upgrade outdated and some were successful while others got similar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
What version of port do you have? What operating system are you
working on? What Xcode version do you have?
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