Comment 16 for bug 62748

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

I cannot test this, as I have fixed my machine in a different way - rebuilding the apache package from edgy with the tweaked flags as mentioned. However, here is a recipe that might work for getting the dapper packages installed:

( [[[ and ]]] delimit lines to copy/paste )

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
[[[
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
]]]

Add to /etc/apt/preferences, creating if it does not exist:
[[[

Package: apache2-common
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-utils
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-mpm-worker
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-mpm-perchild
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-doc
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-prefork-dev
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2-threaded-dev
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: libapr0
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: libapr0-dev
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: apache2
Pin: release a=dapper-security
Pin-Priority: 1001

]]]
Do ensure that there is at least one blank line separating the added lines from any existing data in /etc/apt/preferences.

Having edited both files:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Hope that works,
Max.