Comments on: PHP Linux installation or php upgrade howto

By: Ganga

Ganga — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:26:58 +0000

Yes. It works perfectly for me..
I am using Centos5.5….

Thanks Sanford….

By: danoprey

danoprey — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:28:02 +0000

Perfect, thank you so much for the guide.

By: sapy

sapy — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:16:43 +0000

Pls run the following command :whereis php
now depending on the mode of installation may be u can try setting the home path of php for updated version.

By: Sanford Dickert

Sanford Dickert — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:42:49 +0000

Check the following site for an upgrade path on CentOS 5 at godaddy.

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PHP_5.1_To_5.2

By: Dayawansa

Dayawansa — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:52:23 +0000

I have PHP 5.1 and MYsql 5.0.22. My system is Redhat enterprse server 5. But I am unable to connect the mysql database through PHP.Can you tell me how to upgrade to the latest PHP version from internet at my unix box? Do I have to first uninstall the old version or something

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:15:54 +0000

You must have a way to download files, if you can get a .gz source file.

For example: at home, find the RPM for the package you want to use, burn it to a CD, take it to work, mount the CD, then use the rpm command to install the package.

If bringing a file from home isn’t permitted, then ask your network admins to get the rpm file for you from the ‘net and copy it to your secret network. Then use rpm to install it.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:19:18 +0000

Goodness, I wasn’t trying to garner any awe. I was venting because developing on a closed network RHEL server is a major pain in the ass! No repo’s make me cry hard.

I forgot I even made this post haha. I’m faced with more of the same and started looking for a PHP upgrade procedure via BASH landed me back here…

PHP 5.0 on the production server but my dev server is using 5.2 so when I went to stand up a Flex application today the DateTime function bit me.

By the way, the network is still SECRET and will always be regardless if I speak of it or not.

/google on MOAR!

By: Andi Herdiana

Andi Herdiana — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:53:34 +0000

Please help me!
How to upgrade php and MySQL on FEDORA CORE 4 with detail description!

Thank you before!

By: everydaypanos

everydaypanos — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:13:58 +0000

Is it me or everyone is kind of trying NOT to answer the question? It’s like: I know how to update PHP but I don’t really care to help anyone else because I spent hours googling and some noob wants it on a plate.

Don’t you just love the Open Source community spirit?

At the end of the day, yum update php is NOT the solution. Because the problem is upgrading to a version of PHP that you actually want…

By: farhad

farhad — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:42:39 +0000

I have installed php 5.1.6 manually by rpm .
I am try to upgrade from php-5.1.6 to php 5.2 in redhat 4 (Nahant Update 2)

How can i do it ?

By: Cripto

Cripto — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:01:54 +0000

Aaron, glad to know that…
if it was secret, now it isnt anymore.
Congrats for showing the world what you do / dont do.

if you were more attentive, you would see the answer is up.
You can compile from source, or downloadpre-packaged.

Like Jerry said, it is quite common to use apt-get or yum.
yum is Fedora and RH based.
apt-get from Ubuntu and Debian.
Both are standard and well accepted / respected.

but of course,.. if you use a secret operating system and secret software in bash,
you dont need the super common “nifty updaters”. ROTFL

By: Jerry Ballmer

Jerry Ballmer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:27:23 +0000

“I love how everyone assumes I have yum, or apt-get, or up2date.”

why wouldn’t they? that is the standard setup for most users.

“Working on a DoD SECRET network”

good thing you mentioned this, now we can all think of you in awe and realize how great you must be.

“I’m trying to upgrade php from bash command line and downloaded .gz packages.”

this is really all we needed in addition to letting us know you don’t have net access from your server in question.

HTH

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:48 +0000

I love how everyone assumes I have yum, or apt-get, or up2date.

I’m trying to upgrade php from bash command line and downloaded .gz packages.

Working on a DoD SECRET network, I will never have cloud connectivity to use these nifty updaters.

/google on

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:15 +0000

To update php-4 to php-5 edit your repositories located in (/etc/yum.repos.d), then open CentOS-Base.repo using your favourite editor find [centosplus] below it you will find enable=0 change it to enable=1 an then run yum update php if have any issue do let me know.

Ashwin Wadhwa

By: joe blow

joe blow — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:10:07 +0000

What if you want to update PHP that isn’t supported by the vendor? You would need to either build yourself from source or find a pre-packaged PHP. I’ve encountered this with new bleeding edge applications that want the newest PHP 5.2 or 5.3. How do you integrate those versions of PHP with a currently existing Apache?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:29:52 +0000

#yum update php
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Could not find update match for php
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

fail to update..anyone can help?

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:14:05 +0000

I am on Fedora Core 6 and currently on PHP 5.1.6. When I ran “yum update php” it didn’t pick up the new 5.2 version, any ideas?

By: Danno

Danno — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:50:04 +0000

Hey, I have the same questions. How is it easier to get the latest version installed, and not the patches. I ran configure make and make install, and I still get the previous version.

It would be great if apt-get would install php 5.2.6

By: Photos China

Photos China — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:37:00 +0000

I tryed the command on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-cli

Ant it installed the version 5.2.3 of php but the last version is 5.2.6.

It’s not so important, but how upgrade to the last version using apt-get ?

Thanks for this post

By: Marlin

Marlin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:52:17 +0000

HEllo all
I ran this and it installed the phpize
Install php-devel package to get phpize binary:
yum install php-devel

However now when i try to use phpize it says?
make sure you run ‘usr/bin/phpize’ in the top level source directory of the module

I have looked everywhere on the net and there is no help on this that i could find. Do you have any thoughts on what this means?

Thank You