Chris Lamb (aka lamby) has created two Debian packages for CakePHP which are now in the unstable distribution of Debian: cakephp with the core files, and cakephp-scripts, which contains bake.php and acl.php. The installation is very simple:
apt-get install cakephp
respectively
apt-get install cakephp-scripts
A drawback of using those packages is that they currently use the previous stable version of CakePHP (1.1.13.4450) instead of the current stable version (1.1.14.4797). But I think it will get updated soon.
Hi, Lamby here. Yes, I submitted these to Debian about a month ago hence the older version. I’ll be preparing an update this evening with the latest release.
If anyone is interested in the reason for splitting the packages – this is due to the scripts dependency on the CLI versions of PHP which most people wouldn’t want to install.
I would package the documentation, but I have not received a reply with regard to the license. Hopefully this can be resolved soon.
Anyway, I enjoy reading your posts, please keep up this high-quality work. :)
@Lamby: Thanks for creating those packages! What’s the reason the app folder is in cakephp-scripts and not in the cakephp package?
(Okay, I’ve uploaded new versions of the packages – might have to wait for your mirror to pick them up.)
They are there because the app/ folder is used as a skeleton directory for the bake.php script, and I didn’t want to make the cakephp binary package bigger just by including it. Does that seem sensible?
@Lamby: Makes sense, thanks for the explanations.
tried apt-get install cakephp but it failed what link should I add to my sources list to download the deb packages
thanks
@Daniel: It is in the unstable and the testing distributions so you have to add the following to your sources.list:
HTH