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FreeBSD pkg_add: warning: package php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 requires php5-5.2.8, but php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 is installed

Vivek Gite — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:51:59 +0000

Q. I'm trying to upgrade my PHP version from 5.2.6 to 5.2.8 using portupgrade command. But I'm getting following errors:

*** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.42275.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=5.2.6_2 make reinstall ---> Restoring the old version pkg_add: warning: package 'php5-pcre-5.2.6_2' requires 'php5-5.2.8', but 'php5-pcre-5.2.6_2' is installed ** Fix the installation problem and try again. [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 62 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! lang/php5 (php5-pcre-5.2.6_2) (install error)

How do I fix this problem and upgrade php5-pcre?

CentOS / Red Hat Linux Install PHP 5.x PECL Filter Extension

Vivek Gite — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:49:28 +0000

Q. How do I install filter extension for safely dealing with input parameters supplied via a web form using filter_var()?

Lighttpd as you compiled without pcre support error and solution

Vivek Gite — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:57:30 +0000

Q. I'm using lighttpd under CentOS 5 and getting the following error: ...can't handle '$HTTP[url] =~ …' as you compiled without pcre support. My question is What is pcre support, and how do I solve this problem? A. Pcre is nothing but Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set [...]