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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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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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