cannot install phpmyadmin Depends: php-mcrypt Server 12.10

Asked by Matthew Lux

I have tried this 5 times from clean installs to get phpmyadmin installed properly on a Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal (POWERPC) server. I go through and have no problems installing Apache2, PHP5, MySQL but when i go to install phpmyadmin my output looks like this:

chakra_admin@LinuxV2:~$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 phpmyadmin : Depends: php5-mcrypt but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So then i see if i can install php5-mcrypt but when i try this i get this output and this is where i get stuck.... ANY THOUGHTS?

chakra_admin@LinuxV2:~$ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 php5-mcrypt : Depends: phpapi-20090626+lfs but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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I suggest you report a bug. Quantal is not stable and not ready. If you want a stable OS that works, install Precise which is also LTS so will be supported way past Quantal. If you are happy to stomach bugs and want to report bugs to get the OS ready for release then use Quantal.

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