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Sam Saffron
Asked: 2010-02-18 04:55:22 +0800 CST

Whats the cleanest way to get mod_xsendfile installed on debian lenny

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I would like to get mod xsendfile installed on my debian lenny server but I can not seem to find a deb anywhere not even on backports

When installing from source : http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/ it seems the installer gets a bit angry when trying to muck around with apache conf files.

I can kind of get this all to hand together, but was wondering are any clean steps to get xsendfile installed on apache?

(Side question: is there a reason its not in the mainstream repos - is there something inherently unstable about it?)

linux debian debian-lenny

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The package is in squeeze/sid, just install libapache2-mod-xsendfile after adding either repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

    I dont know why it wasnt included before. Its not in stable atleast, that much i know.

    EDIT:

    I dont have the rank to edit other users posts but here goes Sam.

    If you want to use dpkg -i to install the package you will have to download the individual package, choose architecture and download.

    example:

    dpkg -i libapache2-mod-xsendfile_0.9-2_i386.deb

    I suggest adding squeeze or sid to /etc/apt/sources.list and then use apt (will download, install and satisfy any dependencies for the package):

    apt-get install libapache2-mod-xsendfile

    If you want to use apt-pinning use something like this in your /etc/apt/preferences

    Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600

    This will cause stable to be of higher priority than testing(squeeze) and unstable(sid) and thus use stable as default when downloading packages with the apt tools.

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  2. You should follow artifexs advice but you should be careful when adding the unstable/sid repository to your apt configuration! Packages from unstalbe7sid will override the ones from stable/lenny when doing an apt-get upgrade. You should use apt pinning to downgrade the priority of unstable/sid. Otherwise you will run into troubles during your next upgrade.

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