php5 package doesnt provide php5 binary

[dwright]

Binary package hint: php5

current behaviour:
installing php5 does not provide php (5 or any other version)

example:
$ sudo apt-get install php5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  php5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1122B of archives.er
After this operation, 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main php5 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2 [1122B]
Fetched 1122B in 0s (2693B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package php5.
(Reading database ... 197975 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php5 (from .../php5_5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2_all.deb) ...
Setting up php5 (5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2) ...
[dwright@system76-netbook wordpress-tests]$ which php
php not found
[dwright@system76-netbook wordpress-tests]$ which php5
php5 not found
[dwright@system76-netbook wordpress-tests]$ php
zsh: command not found: php
[dwright@system76-netbook wordpress-tests]$ php5
zsh: command not found: php5

desired behaviour:
$apt-get install php5 (aptitude, or whatever installation method method you like) would actually provide php5 (or at least install another package which does)
in other words, this would then work:
$ php --version
5.2.6 (or whatever)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: php5 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: php5
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[dwright (dvwright)]

ok, I see that one has to do
sudo apt-get install php5-cli

to recieve php avail via the command line.

I suppose that is reasonable

close this bug as invalid

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:50:50AM -0000, dwright wrote:
>
> current behaviour:
> installing php5 does not provide php (5 or any other version)
>

Try to install the php5-cli package.

  status wontfix
  importance low

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Mathias Gug
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