[CentOS] Switching to php53

Sat Apr 30 08:25:09 UTC 2011
Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi>

I would try to first "yum erase php", and then install the php53 version.

- Jussi

On 30.4.2011 9.29, Dave Cross wrote:
> 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...
>


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