I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6.
My main use of PHP on the server is to support an installation of WordPress. I currently had WP 3.1.2 installed, but the WP developers have announced that from WP 3.2 they will only support PHP 5. and greater.
So I investigated and found that the Centos repo contains a series of php53 packages. I tried to install php53 using yum but got the following error:
Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php53.x86_64 0:5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php53-cli = 5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 for package: php53 --> Processing Dependency: php53-common = 5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 for package: php53 --> Running transaction check ---> Package php53-cli.x86_64 0:5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 set to be updated ---> Package php53-common.x86_64 0:5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 set to be updated --> Processing Conflict: php53-common conflicts php-common --> Finished Dependency Resolution php53-common-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems --> php53-common conflicts with php-common Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
I would have thought that the new php53-common package would have obsoleted php-common rather than conflicting with it.
Is there a clean way to replace php with php53? Or should I just wait and hope that Centos 6 is released before WP 3.2 :)
Thanks,
Dave...