Comments on: HOWTO: Upgrade Ubuntu LTS 8.04 server to PHP 5.2.8

By: Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:56:44 +0000

Fixed. Thanks!

By: rossdavidh

rossdavidh — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:40:03 +0000

Hey, thanks! By the way, the apt-key command as you have it in the body of the text still says ‘-add’, which gives an error. It explains that it should be ‘-adv’ in the comments, but those why copy and paste (shame on me) without reading might find it confusing. :)

By: Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:15:16 +0000

I don’t know if you are spamming my site or not, but as the article title tells you, this will install 5.2.8.

Do you realize you have commented half a dozen times on my site today?

By: IT Support london

IT Support london — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:16:54 +0000

how do i know what version this will install
it has to be 5.2.8

By: damion

damion — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:28:13 +0000

Thanks! This helped me out of a bind re. PCI server security compliance and a ubuntu 8.04 install.

Regards,

Damion

By: Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:37:20 +0000

Nic,

I found a way to fix the double-dashes: I use a plugin called highlight-source-pro and I’ve edited the code so that it will escape dashes into their html entity equivalent (-) … this prevents WordPress from replacing them with em-dashes.

Thanks &
Cheers,

Toby

By: Toby Simmons

Toby Simmons — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:41:24 +0000

Nic,

Thanks for your notes. You are absolutely correct that the double dashes are munged (by WordPress) into em-dashes. I’ve done a bit a research and haven’t figured out how to fix that yet but it’s on the list, so to speak!

Cheers,

Toby

By: Nic Bernstein

Nic Bernstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:38:23 +0000

Okay, I give up trying to format that command to post properly. The point is that the recv-keys and keyserver commands both need to be prepended with a pair of dashes “–” not an em-dash “–”.

Also, you were right, the operator to apt-key is “adv” not “add” even though the man page says nothing about “adv”.

Thanks again, and forgive my numerous follow-ups.
-nic

By: Nic Bernstein

Nic Bernstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:33:52 +0000

A correction to my last post. Those are not en-dashes, they are em-dashes. This the code fragment should be this:
apt-key add --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com D8A1B072D21E28605A21D829FE91E998CB542C04
not this:
apt-key adv &s;#8211;recv-keys &s;#8211;keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com D8A1B072D21E28605A21D829FE91E998CB542C04
-nic

By: Nic Bernstein

Nic Bernstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:31:37 +0000

Thanks for a really useful post!
You have a couple of errors in your reference to apt-key. First off, the operator to that command should be “add” not “adv”. Secondly, your code fragment has en-dashes encoded into it, rather than hyphens, which breaks cut and paste:
apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com D8A1B072D21E28605A21D829FE91E998CB542C04"
should be
apt-key add -recv-keys -keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com D8A1B072D21E28605A21D829FE91E998CB542C04"

Otherwise, thanks a lot for bringing this info together in one place!

Cheers,
-nic