Upgrading to PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.x

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Upgrading to PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.x

Wednesday, June 29 2011 @ 02:11 AM UTC
Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I ran into a dependency issue trying to upgrade a particular PHP application to the latest version. Geeklog 1.8.0 requires PHP 5.2 or higher.

The default PHP packages in Centos 5.x are apparently based on the older PHP 5.1 branch. To upgrade php, just remove php and install the specific PHP 5.3 packages:

# yum remove php-common

# yum install php53-common

and any additional php packages needed such as php53-mysql, php53-pdo, ...

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