Am 05.10.2012 um 18:57 schrieb Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>: > I am running Centos 5.8; at least > > uname -rmi > > gives me centos-release-5-8.el5.centos > > A CMS package is telling me that I need PHP 5.2x, however yum > update says that I am fully up to date. > > Is there a "safe" way to upgrade PHP to 5.2x? > Has RedHat ever shipped PHP 5.2? I thought, I had only seen 5.1 and then 5.3 - but I admit I don't use RedHat or CentOS for PHP if I can avoid it. The PHP project has stopped supporting PHP 5.2 some time ago and it's on "life support" by the backports-project: http://code.google.com/p/php52-backports/ E.g. it will drop out of FreeBSD's ports-tree sometime spring 2013. Some Debian release may keep it alive longer. Does you CMS absolutely need PHP 5.2 or does it also work with PHP 5.3?