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How do I install an older version of the php5-mhash package?

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 3042 / 3 Years ago, thu, november 18, 2021, 6:05:42

I have my PHP Version pinned at 5.2.x, Here is the command line output

php -version

PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Oct 23 2009 16:30:10) 

Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group

Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

Running this command to install php5-mhash:

sudo apt-get install php5-mhash

Here is the error message

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading

state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This

may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not

yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following

information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:   php5-mhash: Depends:

php5-common (= 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.10) but 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6

is to be installed E: Broken packages

My question is how do I fix this? Can I install an older version of php5-mhash and if so, how do I do that?

Here is the output from running: sudo apt-get install -f:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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answered 3 Years ago suitman · Accepted Answer

Well if anyone is facing this problem I figured it out.

Download and install it manually

Here are the steps:

(I'm using the Karmic Repo to match the version I have pinned)

Download the matching version from here. Installed on my box is this version php-common 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6 So this is the version I downloaded

Then I manually installed the package like this:

sudo dpkg -i php5-mhash_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb

Output:

Selecting previously deselected package php5-mhash. (Reading database

... 357032 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking

php5-mhash (from php5-mhash_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...

Setting up php5-mhash (5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6) ...

Note: I did install the wrong version before finding the correct version to download and install. The output was something like this:

$ sudo dpkg -i php5-mhash_5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4_i386.deb  

Selecting previously deselected package php5-mhash.

(Reading database ... 357032 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking php5-mhash (from php5-mhash_5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5-mhash:

  php5-mhash depends on php5-common (= 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4); however:

    Version of php5-common on system is 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.

dpkg: error processing php5-mhash (--install):

  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:  php5-mhash

Running this to fix the broken install:

sudo apt-get -f install

Output:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer

required:

  libmhash2

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  php5-mhash

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 69.6kB disk space will be freed. Do you

want to continue [Y/n]? y

(Reading database ... 357033 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing php5-mhash