Fedora Core 5 is currently EOL – it’s not supported any more. As a result, you might find you can’t use yum to install packages any more – you get an error message about this file not existing: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml This is because the repositories that yum uses aren’t there anymore. However you can modify the [...]
Download the RPMs you require for your new PHP installation from the following URLs. If you have RPMs that aren’t listed, use the search function: php-5.2.5 pcre-6.6 php-cli-5.2.5 php-common-5.2.5 php-pear-1.7.1 php-gd-5.2.5 php-pd-5.2.5 php-mysql-5.2.5 sqllite Or if you are upgrading another distrobution, search for the equivalents here. Check which PHP RPMs you currently have installed: rpm [...]
To determine which version of Fedora or Redhat you are running, simply type: cat /etc/redhat-release This will then display something like: Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)