mypc - Lucid Aftermath

After upgrading to Lucid, I did have some problems:

Drupal
Because in Lucid PHP was upped to 5.3.2, Drupal stopped working (with the illustrious error "Function ereg() is deprecated in /var/www/drupal/include /file.inc on line 895."). Let's say downgrading PHP back to 5.2.10 is less than trivial...

• Remove the PHP 5.3.2 packages:
  • dpkg -l | grep php
  • sudo apt-get remove php5 php5-cli ...etc...
• create extra sources.list to acces karmic packages
  • sed s/lucid/karmic/g /etc/apt/sources.list | sudo tee
  • /etc/apt/sources.list.d/karmic.list
• sudo apt-get update
• create pin-list (so that it will not try to update to 5.3 again):
  in a file /etc/apt/preferences.d/php all packages in this fashion:
  Package: php5
  Pin: release a=karmic
  Pin-Priority: 991

  Package: php5-adodb
  Pin: release a=karmic
  Pin-Priority: 991
  ...

• install php: sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd
• edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini: memory_limit from 16M to 64M
• restart apache: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
• clear browser

I'm aware that some kind of script is circulating that should fix this downgrade, but I didn't get it to work properly. It just uninstalled half of my packages, which gave problems lateron. If you want to give it a try, you can find it here. I got most of my steps from that script and from this site.

Flash
Flash didn't work at all (I only tested Firefox), because the beta 64-bit player was installed, which segfaulted.

First I tried this (source):

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash && sudo apt-get
• update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

But that didn't even make it past installation.

Then I tried to install flashplugin-installer through synaptic, but it wasn't avaliable.

Then I tried to install flashplugin-nonfree:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
There were no errors, but it didn't play any flash movies, either.

Next try:

• I removed all flash packages with synaptic
• I went to youtube, installed flashplugin-installer through the popup bar that prompts you on installing missing plugins
• When I restarted firefox, youtube movies play, but mouseclicks were not accepted correctly. For instance, I can't scan through or change the resolution (depending on the youtube player skin).

Finally I installed the Firefox plugin Flash-aid (it installed 64-bit version: 10.0 r45) and now everything works normal again.