knowledgebase/linux/miscapplications/rpm based php5.1 install 1 PHP 5.2 on CentOS5 If you're looking for PHP 5.2.x RPMs for CentOS5, try these: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/el5.i386/ 1 Installing PHP 5.1 On RHEL4 You can instlal PHP 5.1 from the centosplus repository: {code} { if ! grep -qai '^rpm "http://mirror.centos.org/centos"' /etc/apt/sources.list ; then echo 'rpm "http://mirror.centos.org/centos" /4/apt/i386 os updates addons centosplus' >> /etc/apt/sources.list fi sed --in-place 's%^rpm http:\//apt.rimuhosting.com rhel/4%#rpm http:\//apt.rimuhosting.com rhel/4%' /etc/apt/sources.list sed --in-place 's%^rpm-src http:\//apt.rimuhosting.com rhel/4%#rpm-src http:\//apt.rimuhosting.com rhel/4%' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install -y php php-xml #sed --in-place 's%^rpm "http://mirror.centos.org/centos"%#rpm "http://mirror.centos.org/centos"%' /etc/apt/sources.list } {code} If your upgrading from php4, substitute apt-get dist-upgrade php, instead of the apt-get install command. 1 RPM-based install of PHP5.1 onto a WBEL3 Distro (Deprecated?) This one has not been tried for a while. And odds are it may no longer work (e.g. the repositories that it points to may have changed their contents). {code:none} function installphp51() { version=5.1.6-1.2.1 pearversion=1.4.9-1.2 # get the rpm packages you have installed. e.g. php-mysql, php-gd rpms=$(rpm -qa | grep php- | sed 's/-4.*//g' | grep -v ioncube); # not a dependa ncy in PHP4 is in PHP5 so ensure it is one of the rpms we install rpms="$rpms php-pear php-pdo" rhelversion=rhel4 rheldir=4ES pv="centos" mirror="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.4/centosplus/i386/RPMS/" if [ ! -e /etc/redhat-release ] ; then echo "This howto only works on rhel based distros" >&2 return 1 fi if grep -qai 3.0 /etc/redhat-release; then rhelversion=rhel3 rheldir=3ES wget 'http://dag.wieers.com/packages/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.16-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm' if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "failed getting necessary libxml2.6" >&2 return 1 fi rpm -Uvfh libxml2-2.6.16-1.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "failed installing necessary libxml2.6" >&2 return 1 fi mirror="http://mirror.cheetaweb.com/redhat/$rheldir/i386/RPMS.php51/" pv="ct" fi if grep -qai 4 /etc/redhat-release; then rpm -Uvh "http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/sqlite-3.3.3-1.2.i386.rpm" if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "failed to install sqlite package."; return 1; fi fi fullrpms= mkdir php51; cd php51; for i in $rpms; do if [ "$i" = "php-pear" ]; then file=php-pear-$pearversion.$pv.noarch.rpm else file=$i-$version.$pv.i386.rpm fi fullrpms=$(echo $fullrpms $file) if [ -e $file ] ; then continue; fi wget "$mirror/$file" if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then echo "failed getting " "$mirror""$file"; return 1; fi done echo rpms= $fullrpms # install the newer versions of each of those rpms rpm -Uvfh $fullrpms if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "failed installing rpms"; return 1; fi replace "php4" "php5" -- /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf } installphp51 {code} 2008-01-27 20:44:42.0 2006-02-20 00:55:21.0