2011/4/30 Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com>: > 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 :) just remove php and php-common yum remove php php-common -- Eero