Php – How to reinstall PHP on the system

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I did sudo aptitude –purge remove php5, which removed successfully, except php5 is still installed on my system. How can I uninstall and re-install php5?

UPDATE

Thanks for the answers, I have these packages installed:

tony@bandop $ aptitude search php|grep "^i"
i A libapache2-mod-php5             - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting langu
i   php-pear                        - PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repos
i   php5-cli                        - command-line interpreter for the php5 scri
i A php5-common                     - Common files for packages built from the p
i   php5-dev                        - Files for PHP5 module development         
i   php5-mysql                      - MySQL module for php5

I want to configure PHP to use a external PCRE library that I built. Do you know which package I have to reconfigure? Is there a way to specify config options when installing a package with aptitude?

Best Answer

If you want to change the ./configure options if a package, you need to rebuild the package. The easiest way to do this is run:

# apt-get install build-essential devscripts
# apt-get source php5
# cd php5-*
# vim debian/rules 
# debuild -us -uc -b

You should now find the rebuild packages in the directory above the source. You can install these using "dpkg -i php5_1.2.3-4_amd64.deb" where the filename is the list of packages you want to install.

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