PHP5 not parsing web .php files after upgrade--need serious help quickly

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Hi all--

 

I'm running Ubuntu x64 server edition, 2.6.15-28-amd64-server.

 

I had php5.1.2 installed, but I wanted to upgrade to at least php5.1.4 in order to start fooling around with the google calendar api.

 

this is where the problems began.

 

i ran:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5

but it said "up to date, will not be updated"

so I searched and found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1627363 which said to add

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

to the sources.list file, which I did. then I ran update again and apt-get install and things broke.  I couldn't use phpMyAdmin anymore, it wouldn't let me access it with the root username and password.

 

I can access mysql with # sudo mysql

 

So I did some more things, and tell me if you need more information to help me solve my current problem.

 

I can't parse php files in my web directory.  Apache works, it serves the pages, but php5 doesn't seem to be installed properly--it's there.  It prompts me with the firefox file download to grab whatever *.php file I'm accessing.

 

this happend after i ran

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 

When I try to run apt-get install php5 now, it says

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  php5: Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.1.2-1ubuntu3. but it is not going to be installed or
                 php5-cgi (>= 5.1.2-1ubuntu3. but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

 

when I run php5 and libapache2 it says

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libapache2-mod-php5: Depends: php5-common (= 5.1.2-1ubuntu3. but 5.2.3-0.dotdeb.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

 

I appreciate any help-- i apologize for the crappy state of this post, but I'm in a sort of panic mode because this needs to be hosted. Thanks thanks thanks again.

 

EDIT:

 

I have MySQL 5.022 installed, and apache2 installed, but I tried to run

sudo apt-get remove php5

and it said that php5 is not installed

 

EDIT EDIT:

 

I did

sudo apt-get remove php5-common

 

and ran

 

sudo apt-get install php5

 

and it installed perfectly and everything seemed fine, but it still doesn't parse the webpages!  is there a configuration i'm missing?

 

I removed apache2, php5,and installed them in that order.

 

libphp5.so is in the available modules folder, but there is no pointer to it from the enabled modules folder.  When I point to them, .php files are still not parsed.  it only gives me the option to download the php file which is not good for security reasons currently!