[TYPO3-debian] libgd and php4 from dotdeb.org

[Mathias Behrle]

* Alexander Schories am Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:27:09 +0200:

Hi Alexander,

> Seems as if we both can`t sleep, but do "server stuff" early in the morning
> instead.. :D

Indeed!

> Let`s agree upon that it`s not the "Windoze way of solving problems" in
> general, because sometimes after many upgrades (esp. from
> unstable/experimental or backports) old extensions are left in php`s
> extension folder (which then conflict with the new one) or - as in this case
> - the appropriate php.ini-entry will not be set automagically by apt. In
> those cases a forced purge of old stuff is quite handy. 

Since I just did
apt-get remove --purge php4-gd
apt-get install php4-gd
it wasn't really 'old stuff'. 

> The difference to
> windoze is: apt will still do it all for you! Only in ultra rare cases a
> user has to look around on the disk on his/her own. Even then, one still
> knows where to look and what to look for - in windoze those "registry keys &
> .dll-hell" would probably drive you mad in such a case.. :)

You are completely right. I simply was astonished by the fact, that this
time just reinstalling did the trick. Rarely this is the solution in
Linux/Debian.

> Thank you once again for your response and happy typo3 times! :)

Works like a charm and I am really impressioned.
Now just trying to get it working on postgresql, my preferred DBMS.

All the best,
Mathias