I hope I'm in the right place.
I'm running a fresh Debian 9 (stretch) system. I'm trying to install PHP7.2 (from Ondřej Surý repository). I did the requisite sudo apt-get update
before beginning. I then followed the instructions on Christopher Shaw's site:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
I then did another sudo apt-get update
After that, I proceeded to the meat of things: sudo apt-get install php7.2
Then the problems started. Here's the output:
(( -- successful stuff snipped -- ))
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Setting up php7.2-common (7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e) ...
touch: cannot touch '/var/lib/php/modules/7.2/apache2/enabled_by_maint/calendar': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package php7.2-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.2-readline:
php7.2-readline depends on php7.2-common (= 7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e); however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package php7.2-readline (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.2:
php7.2 depends on php7.2-common; however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package php7.2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.2-cli:
php7.2-cli depends on php7.2-common (= 7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e); however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
php7.2-cli depends on php7.2-readline; however:
Package php7.2-readline is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package php7.2-cli (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.2-json:
php7.2-json depends on php7.2-common (= 7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e); however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package php7.2-json (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libapache2-mod-php7.2:
libapache2-mod-php7.2 depends on php7.2-cli; however:
Package php7.2-cli is not configured yet.
libapache2-mod-php7.2 depends on php7.2-common (= 7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e); however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
libapache2-mod-php7.2 depends on php7.2-json; however:
Package php7.2-json is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libapache2-mod-php7.2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php7.2-opcache:
php7.2-opcache depends on php7.2-common (= 7.2.7-1+0~20180622080745.23+stretch~1.gbpfd8e2e); however:
Package php7.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package php7.2-opcache (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
php7.2-common
php7.2-readline
php7.2
php7.2-cli
php7.2-json
libapache2-mod-php7.2
php7.2-opcache
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
~$
I searched and searched and searched and found nothing regarding this issue. After thrashing for almost an hour, I tried ..
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
... then tried the process again. No joy.
I'm seriously dead in the water and completely at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas what's wrong or what I may try next?
Thanks!