E: Unable to locate package php-cgi

[snlpnstslocn]

Hi All,

I am trying to install lighttpd on raspbmc.

When running the following commandç
sudo apt-get install php5-common php5-cgi php5

the command run but I get the following error message:
E: Unable to locate package php-cgi

what is this due to?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[DougieLawson]

There is no package called php-cgi.

sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-common

should install everything you need.

[snlpnstslocn]

thank you DougieLawson I am totally new to linux command line your help is highly appreciated.

I re-run the command as you suggested and package got installed. 2 more things:
- when installing this other package I got the following:
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
[....] Starting web server: apache2apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1 for ServerName
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!

as I understand this is becauae I didn't assign a fqdn into apache configuration. Since I am doing this just to put up a test page for myself can this be the default loopback 127.0.0.1?

- when trying to get into the /www directory I always get the No such file or directory error. What am I missing here?

[DougieLawson]

You don't need a FQDN, that's optional.

Unless you're doing something special Apache will bind to the 0.0.0.0:80 address/port so http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 should pull up your index.htm, index.html or index.php page (or the default 404.html if those don't exist).

Have a look in your apache2.conf.
Add (or update) the errorlog directive

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ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

That should mean any errors during startup get logged.

Then you need to use

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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start 

to get the web server started. (If you try that from a non-privileged user you'll get the errors you're reporting.)