Comments on: Upgrading PHP on Fedora Core 5 (or other distro)

By: codesmith

codesmith — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:50:06 +0000

I was able to figure this out using just YUM. As of today Remi’s repo has PHP 5.2.9 although it says you need the Epel repository as well. That doesn’t play well with redhat-release but I was able to get around the 2 missing dependencies using the redhat-extras repo.

Remi’s repo:
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5.rpm

Update the extras repo to here:
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/

Doing:
yum upgrade php –enablerepo=remi
got me most of the way there but 2 errors:

Error: Missing Dependency: libt1.so.5 is needed by package php-gd
Error: Missing Dependency: libsqlite.so.0 is needed by package php-pdo

For the first one:
yum install libt1.so.5 –enablerepo=extras

For the 2nd one:
yum install sqlite2 –enablerepo=extras

Try again:
yum upgrade php –enablerepo=remi

and it works – 5.2.9!

By: Janak

Janak — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:21:42 +0000

Hey your solution doesnt workedout for me. When i tried to remove the php using “rpm -e ..” command it is throwing me a error like, Dependencies are there so cannot be uninstalled. I tried to update the same via yum too. I got the same error during that time too. Is there any other way to update the php version to latest stable like 5.2.9 from my php version 5.1.6 which comes with my fc5 core installation itself. Can anyone help me out on this?

By: bdz69

bdz69 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:19:33 +0000

You Da MAN!! After hours of trying to compile and make PHP 5.2 work with my Fed5 server this worked in like 10 minutes!! Thank You

By: Vikas Vishnu

Vikas Vishnu — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:17:31 +0000

Thanks a bunch friend! This made my work really simple and easy.. I didn’t know that this could be done so easily

By: Andrew Cheung

Andrew Cheung — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:31:36 +0000

I am just searching the solution for upgrading php to 5.2.x.
It is very lucky that I see this solution here.

However, because there are plenty of job working in my fedora core 5, I have to make sure there is no problem after upgrading it.

From my search on the web, you are not able to install the PHP5.2 directly by downloading the file from the PHP.net. It is because there will be too many discripency issue.

Also, I have read some article on the web that, when you upgrade the PHP5.2 in FC5, you also have to upgrade the apache and the mysql package.

In this post, I can only see that, PHP5.1 is removed and then PHP5.2 is installed.
I wonder, if there are any problem affect the current web application by using php5.1, mysql and apache?
Is it necessary to upgrade the mysql and apache as well?

It would be quite trouble for me if the web applications are down. i would just like to confirm if everything will be fine after upgrading.

Thanks for all your help in advance.