Debian Etch support

[skrieg2]

Hi there,

I read that Debian Etch (also known as "testing") will be frozen (or has been recently). Only security updates will be applied.

Etch's packages are more up to date than Sarge's (the one currently supported). PHP5 and Mysql5 as well as other usefull stuff.

I wonder if swsoft will release a version of Plesk for Debian Etch. I tried to install the current Plesk 8.1 on Etch but dpkg is whining for depedencies (as usual).

If swsoft will (and I hope so), I wonder when and which version ( 8.1 or the next one).

Does anyone has any idea ?
thanks

 

[Vengent]

I don't know about official support, but its possible (with lots of tweaking), to get plesk 8.1 functioning on etch.

I started on sarge, got everything installed there, then upgraded to etch.

It was far from easy, but it does work now.

 

[skrieg2]

Hi,

I did try to upgrade to Etch. Missing depedencies broke all of the system. I gave up quite fast.

I think I don't have the required dpkg-skills to tweak a production system.

I am going to install Sarge. Then I will compile php5 from tarballs for a parallel operation.

 

[Hal9000]

just use the backport packages...

 

[skrieg2]

I tried to install php5 from backports but the system whines because php5 from swsoft is already installed.


Any advise for using backports ?

 

[Dawn]

@skrieg2:

Here my sources.list:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

# Stable
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main non-free contrib

# PSA
deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_8.1.0 sarge all

# Backports
deb http://www.backports.org/backports.org/ sarge-backports main contrib non-free

# Typo3
deb http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/debian/ sarge all


Then use aptitude and search the needed packages via the search function. If you find the searched one, you can choose the version you want (in your case the backports.org one) by pressing the key 'v'.

The only thing I never got worked is using php5 together with mysql5. I can install both of them, but php5 is still using the mysql4 client.

Greets and best regards,
Dawn

 

[skrieg2]

Hi,

Thank your for your useful help!

Have you modified the /etc/apt/preferences file as well ?

 

[Dawn]

No problem

Jepp, I've modified it too /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

Greets,
Dawn

 

[skrieg2]

Thank you for your help.

I'm going to use your advises for next installation.

By the way, I don't think it's a good idea to move to mysql5 since Plesk does not support it officially.

I am using another server with a mysql5 service for sites which require it (typically Typo3).

Sam

 

[Dawn]

I don't want to use a remote db for typo3. Plesk 8.1 supports officialy MySQL 5 but Debian Sarge (including usinging Backports) doesn't support it together with PHP 5....

Greets,
Dawn

 

[skrieg2]

If I understand my situation I've got 3 available (rational) solutions:

- go with php5 + mysql4 with backports
- forget debian, switch to another distro and get php5+mysql5 easily
- compile php and mysql from source

Am I right ?

 

[Vengent]

Take a look at dotdeb instead of backports as well.

 

[skrieg2]

I found dexter's

deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5.1 sarge
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5.1 sarge