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By: Giovanni Arteaga

Giovanni Arteaga — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:45:08 +0000

Great. But how do I get php-mcrypt included on the installation of yum install php53*

Thanks for the tutorial.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:39:12 +0000

your repos really helped me

By: Karthik

Karthik — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:53:54 +0000

I just did the following and it upgraded my VPS from 5.1.6 to 5.3.3

I first removed the existing php by the above method specified by Mayur Pipaliya.

Then I did the following :-
# wget http://dl.nux.ro/rpm/nux-php53.repo --output-document=/etc/yum.repos.d/php53.repo # yum install php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-devel php-xml # php -v

the result was :-
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Oct 26 2010 17:09:35)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

By: Mayur Pipaliya

Mayur Pipaliya — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:01:42 +0000

FYI: Its php53* and causing conflicts with php 5.2 or older if you don’t care to remove one !

so, better to remove older and get newer one..
$ yum remove php* $ yum install php53*

via CentOS-Testing repo (:

By: Mayur Pipaliya

Mayur Pipaliya — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:37:21 +0000

$ php -v $ rpm -qa |grep php $ wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo --output-document=/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo $ fo0=/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo $ mv $fo0 $fo0.old $ sed 's/enabled=0/enabled=1/g' $fo0.old > $fo0 $ rm -f $fo0.old $ yum remove php* $ yum install php53* $ rpm -qa |grep php $ php -v

w00t w00t ! 🙂

By: tim

tim — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:34:19 +0000

A howto for upgrading to php 5.2 on Centos 5:
http://forums.quantact.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1166

By: Rajesh Kanuri

Rajesh Kanuri — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:28:07 +0000

how to install php 5.2.8 using yum?

By: haberler

haberler — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:30:25 +0000

when i type to command prompt “yum –enablerepo=remi install mysql-libs mysql.x86_64 mysql-devel.x86_64 mysql-server php-mysql”

i saw this errors:

file /usr/share/mysql/estonian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-16
file /usr/share/mysql/french/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.e6
file /usr/share/mysql/german/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.e6
file /usr/share/mysql/greek/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.el6
file /usr/share/mysql/hungarian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-6
file /usr/share/mysql/italian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/japanese/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-16
file /usr/share/mysql/korean/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.e6
file /usr/share/mysql/norwegian-ny/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/norwegian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-6
file /usr/share/mysql/polish/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.e6
file /usr/share/mysql/portuguese/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.536
file /usr/share/mysql/romanian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-16
file /usr/share/mysql/russian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/serbian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/slovak/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.e6
file /usr/share/mysql/spanish/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/swedish/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-1.6
file /usr/share/mysql/ukrainian/errmsg.sys from install of mysql-libs-5.1.53-6

any solutions ?

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:19:05 +0000

Fixed my own problems. I had to remove php-ncurses which was outdated and no longer needed