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Upgrade PHP 4 to 5 in CentOS

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#1 Mon, 12/03/2007 - 10:29

ihistand

Upgrade PHP 4 to 5 in CentOS

Question: If I want to upgrade to PHP 5.x from 4.x, what is the best source for the upgrade packages?

Here are the details for my situation: OS: CentOS 4.5 current php package: 4.3.9-3.32.5.vm Latest Virtualmin updates (pro version)

Here are the options I see when I do "yum list --enablerepo=centosplus | grep php":

php5.i386 5.2.4-2vm.el4 virtualmin php.i386 5.1.6-3.el4s1.8 centosplus (and lots of other related packages)

Any suggestions on how to do this right?

Thanks --Ivan

#2 Mon, 12/03/2007 - 10:31

Joe

NO! Don't enable the centosplus repo. Just install our php5 packages. Please, save yourself a load of headaches!

I didn't spend a month working on those packages, and making them work sanely along-side PHP 4 just to have folks use incompatible packages from some other source. (The centosplus php 5 packages require you to remove php 4 packages, breaking anything that relies on the older version.) ;-)<br><br>Post edited by: Joe, at: 2007/12/03 10:32

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#3 Mon, 12/03/2007 - 12:33 (Reply to #2)

ihistand

Joe, thanks for the advice so quickly, and yes I really do appreciate the work you did on this. I figured I'd give a try installing your php5 packages, and tried as follows, however there appears to be a dependency mismatch (see error at bottom):

[root@XXXXXXXX ~]# yum install php5*
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
virtualmin 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:13
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
virtualmin-universal 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
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for php5-ldap to pack into transaction set.
php5-ldap-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-ldap.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5 to pack into transaction set.
php5-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i386.r 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
---> Package php5.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-ncurses to pack into transaction set.
php5-ncurses-5.2.4-2vm.el 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-ncurses.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-pgsql to pack into transaction set.
php5-pgsql-5.2.4-2vm.el4. 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-pgsql.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-bcmath to pack into transaction set.
php5-bcmath-5.2.4-2vm.el4 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-bcmath.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-xml to pack into transaction set.
php5-xml-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i3 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-xml.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-cli to pack into transaction set.
php5-cli-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i3 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-cli.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-mcrypt to pack into transaction set.
php5-mcrypt-5.2.4-2vm.el4 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-mcrypt.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-pdo to pack into transaction set.
php5-pdo-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i3 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-pdo.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-gd to pack into transaction set.
php5-gd-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i38 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-gd.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-imap to pack into transaction set.
php5-imap-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-imap.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-snmp to pack into transaction set.
php5-snmp-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-snmp.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-mhash to pack into transaction set.
php5-mhash-5.2.4-2vm.el4. 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-mhash.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-mssql to pack into transaction set.
php5-mssql-5.2.4-2vm.el4. 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-mssql.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-devel to pack into transaction set.
php5-devel-5.2.4-2vm.el4. 100% |=========================| 46 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-devel.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-mbstring to pack into transaction set.
php5-mbstring-5.2.4-2vm.e 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-mbstring.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-mysql to pack into transaction set.
php5-mysql-5.2.4-2vm.el4. 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-mysql.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-dba to pack into transaction set.
php5-dba-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i3 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-dba.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-xmlrpc to pack into transaction set.
php5-xmlrpc-5.2.4-2vm.el4 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-xmlrpc.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-soap to pack into transaction set.
php5-soap-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-soap.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-odbc to pack into transaction set.
php5-odbc-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-odbc.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-common to pack into transaction set.
php5-common-5.2.4-2vm.el4 100% |=========================| 20 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-common.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for php5-tidy to pack into transaction set.
php5-tidy-5.2.4-2vm.el4.i 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
---> Package php5-tidy.i386 0:5.2.4-2vm.el4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libmhash.so.2 for package: php5-mhash
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mcrypt
--> Processing Dependency: libsybdb.so.5 for package: php5-mssql
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-tidy
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mssql
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mhash
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package mhash.i386 0:0.9.9-1 set to be updated
---> Package freetds.i386 0:0.64-6.el4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mcrypt
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-tidy
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mssql
--> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 for package: php5-mhash
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 is needed by package php5-mcrypt
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 is needed by package php5-tidy
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 is needed by package php5-mssql
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.2.4-2vm.el4 is needed by package php5-mhash

#4 Wed, 12/05/2007 - 05:32

ihistand

Note, the error is as follows:

packages php5-mcrypt, php5-tidy, php5-mssql, and php5-mhash all have the incorrect dependency "php-common" when the dependency should be "php5-common"

Is there a way to get around this problem, or a fix scheduled?

Thanks,
Ivan

#5 Wed, 12/05/2007 - 12:43

ihistand

I have installed all the php5 packages which had no problems with dependencies, now another question: What's the best way to configure Apache to use the new php5 packages rather than the old php (4) packages?

Thanks,
Ivan

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