> If you know of a place I can get these installs from, I'm all
> ears. Or a
> suggestion for what I have to do (and forgive me because I'm
> no Linux guru
> here, so you may have to spell it out), I'd be very
> appreciative for any
> direction.

If you're just starting out/eager to try new stuff, try FreeBSD.

To do what you've just done, from a freshly installed machine:
`cd /usr/ports/www/apache2`
(I personally still use 1.3 - you can't kill individual threads)
`make install`
`cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php5`
`make install`
`cd /usr/ports/databases/firebird-server`
`make install`

All sources downloaded, configured, compiled, and installed, including all
dependencies.
That's why my last Linux was kernel 2.2.12...

Nige.