PHP CLI in Ubuntu 8.04-LAMP

[carllee]

Dear Friends,

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04-LAMP and don't seem to find php command line interface anywhere in the system.
I've been trying:

# which php
# php -v
# /usr/local/bin/php
# /usr/bin/php

The server is running allright. PHP and Apache work together fine, but where is it hiding?

Thank you for helping me!

[DanL@VPSLink]

Have you tried sudo apt-get install php5-cli ..?

[GuyPatterson]

Originally Posted by carllee

but where is it hiding?

Debian Lenny:

PHP Code:

[76][nullamatix ~]:# aptitude show php5-cli
Package: php5-cli
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 5419k
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), libdb4.6, libkrb53 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libpcre3 (>= 7.4), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), libxml2 (>=
         2.6.28), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), mime-support, php5-common (= 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny4), libmagic1, ucf, tzdata
Suggests: php-pear
Provides: phpapi-20060613+lfs
Description: command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language
 This package provides the /usr/bin/php5 command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell, or perhaps even performing general shell scripting tasks, if you're frightened of
 Perl and Python. 
 
 The following extensions are built in: bcmath bz2 calendar ctype date dba dom exif filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml mbstring mime_magic ncurses openssl pcntl pcre posix Reflection
 session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib. 
 
 PHP5 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to
 allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. This version of PHP5 was built with the Suhosin patch.
Homepage: http://www.php.net/

[77][nullamatix ~]:# 


/usr/bin/php5, if installed, should work...

PHP Code:

[80][nullamatix ~]:# /usr/bin/php5 -v
PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2009 02:38:03) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
[81][nullamatix ~]:# /usr/bin/php5-cgi -v
PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny4 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Nov 22 2009 02:20:54)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
[82][nullamatix ~]:# 


[carllee]

Dear DanL@VPSLink,

yes, that was the first thing I've tried. But it throws some very obscure errors:

# sudo apt-get install php5-cli
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-cli is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package php5-cli has no installation candidate

I don't seem to find any solution via google. Is something wrong with aptitude servers? I did not change any of the default settings.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[chriss]

Try updating your package repositories:

sudo aptitude update

If the install doesn't work after that, then I'd suggest posting the contents of your apt sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list) for a forum member to check.

[GuyPatterson]

Originally Posted by carllee

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package php5-cli has no installation candidate

I don't seem to find any solution via google. Is something wrong with aptitude servers? I did not change any of the default settings.

Type this command and paste the results here:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[carllee]

Preamble:
I'm not allowed to post URLs, as I am yet to make 15 post. So scheme part of the URLs is replaced with [scheme://]

Updated aptitude using code supplied earlier by chriss:

# sudo aptitude update
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Get:1 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Get:2 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release [58.5kB]
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Get:3 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages [227kB]
Get:4 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources [46.5kB]
Get:5 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages [29.3kB]
Get:6 [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources [5220B]
Fetched 367kB in 2s (145kB/s)                      
Reading package lists... Done

Tried to install php5-cli then. No success:

# sudo apt-get install php5-cli
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-cli is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package php5-cli has no installation candidate

List of the source files:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy main
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy-updates main
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy-security main
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

[GuyPatterson]

Looks like php5-cli is in the ubuntu security repos, which doesn't appear to exist in your sources.list

Try adding this to your sources list, then apt-get update, apt-get install php5-cli or apt-get install php5

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main

Ubuntu -- Details of package php5-cli in hardy
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/php5-cli/download

[carllee]

Dear GuyPatterson,

I have updated sources list as you've suggested. The new list:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy main
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy-updates main
#deb [scheme://]mirror.vpslink.com/ubuntu hardy-security main
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src [scheme://]us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb [scheme://]security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main

Then I ran apt-get update. And tried to installed missing php5-cli. Some obscure failures as a result:

# apt-get install php5-cli
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common php5-mysql
Suggested packages:
  php-pear
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  php5-cli
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common php5-mysql
3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
Need to get 5332kB of archives.
After this operation, 5411kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 [scheme://]security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main php5-cli 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 [2478kB]
Get:2 [scheme://]security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main php5-mysql 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 [65.2kB]
Get:3 [scheme://]security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 [2472kB]
Get:4 [scheme://]security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main php5-common 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 [317kB]
Fetched 5332kB in 4s (1180kB/s)               
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 33, <> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 48, <> line 4.
Can't fork at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 67, <> line 4.
Selecting previously deselected package php5-cli.
(Reading database ... 13798 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php5-cli (from .../php5-cli_5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-cli_5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10_i386.deb (--unpack):
 fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 fork failed: Cannot allocate memory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/php5-cli_5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I honestly have never seen such thing. Any ideas?
Thank you!

[DanL@VPSLink]

fork failed: Cannot allocate memory

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