I'm trying to install libapache2-mod-passenger (from backports) to a Debian Lenny system containing apache2-mpm-itk. What happens is this:
# aptitude install libapache2-mod-passenger Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libapache2-mod-php5 The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-worker{a} javascript-common{a} libapache2-mod-passenger libjs-prototype{a} librack-ruby{a} librack-ruby1.8{a} wwwconfig-common{a} The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2-mpm-itk{a} 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 792kB of archives. After unpacking 3191kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache2-mod-php5: Depends: apache2-mpm-prefork (> 2.0.52) but it is not installable or apache2-mpm-itk but it is not installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: libapache2-mod-php5 Score is 119 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
As far as I understand, this is because mod_passenger
requires Apache version >=2.2.9-9, but the apache2-mpm-itk
of Lenny is only version 2.2.6-02. This is at least a reported bug, and even claims to be fixed, but apparently has been reported again. Is there any trick to get mod_passenger
installed while keeping the mpm-itk
flavor of Apache? Apparently Passenger would work with Apache 2.2.6-02, the problem is just that the package dependency is set to wrong version.