[CentOS] CentOS 5.7 PHP upgrade

Mon Oct 10 18:34:37 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 10/10/11 11:27 AM, dev at nkmo.com wrote:
> I would love to use the standard repository, unfortunately the package is
> not found which was how I ended up finding the third part solution. I
> tried:
> yum update php
> yum upgrade php
> yum install php
> yum install php53

odd.


$ sudo yum list php53\*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * base: mirror.nic.uoregon.edu
  * extras: mirror.nic.uoregon.edu
  * updates: centos.mirror.facebook.net
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates
Finished
Available Packages
php53.i386                                                        
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-bcmath.i386                                                 
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-cli.i386                                                    
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-common.i386                                                 
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-dba.i386                                                    
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-devel.i386                                                  
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-gd.i386                                                     
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-imap.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-intl.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-ldap.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-mbstring.i386                                               
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-mysql.i386                                                  
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-odbc.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-pdo.i386                                                    
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-pgsql.i386                                                  
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-process.i386                                                
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-pspell.i386                                                 
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-snmp.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-soap.i386                                                   
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-xml.i386                                                    
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base
php53-xmlrpc.i386                                                 
5.3.3-1.el5_6.1                                               base


it appears from your yum output, you have the base repositories disabled?!?


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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
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