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Installation fails with an error


Dave E

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Install fails with the following error as reported in error.log

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E_WARNING(2) - preg_replace_callback(): Compilation failed: digits missing after \x or in \x{} or \o{} or \N{U+} at offset 3 @ /usr/share/apache2/default-site/htdocs/system/vendor/pear/net_url2/Net/URL2.php line 1200
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Running PHP 8.5.1

Is there a fix?
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Not at this time.

Geeklog only supports up to and including PHP v8.1 so you will have to roll back your version of PHP to use Geeklog.
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