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PHP files downloading - Ubuntu 14.04


Its the rare issue but when it comes we need to find various solutions but the issue that holds this kind of issue need to be understand so that it wont let next time much time to solve through searching the answer on google.

After upgrading from ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS I faced this issue twice with some basic mistakes. The issue that was running down was the unmet dependencies of the packages after doing the partial updates on the prompt of software updates.


The unmet dependencies where resolved with the command "aptitude" used with the things that were causing the issue to unmet dependencies creation. PHP files were downloading because my system was missing the "libapache2-mod-php5" accordance with the apache2.4 after upgrade.

So I installed but when went through apt-get got the unmet dependencies and later on it was solved with the following command:
sudo aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

After installing it with the packages that where prompted on the terminal I was able to resolve this php files downloading issue on my system and I also got back my phpmyadmin back also.


Happy Learning :)


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