Straylight Run » yum http://blog.straylightrun.net Software, Technology, PHP Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:26:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Upgrading PHP 5.1 on CentOS 5.3http://blog.straylightrun.net/2009/07/15/upgrading-php-5-1-on-centos-5-3/ http://blog.straylightrun.net/2009/07/15/upgrading-php-5-1-on-centos-5-3/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:05:37 +0000 gerard http://blog.straylightrun.net/2009/07/15/upgrading-php-5-1-on-centos-5-3/ To test things on our RHEL 5 production servers, I fire up CentOS 5 in VMWare.  While we build PHP 5.2 manually in production, I try to avoid doing so just for testing. Unfortunately, CentOS 5 is packaged with PHP 5.1 by default which becomes a big difference between my testing and production environments.  Fortunately, there is a CentOS yum repository out there with PHP 5.2.  I thought I’d document this here for anyone else with the same problem.

The solution I found starts with this thread about upgrading PHP on the CentOS forums.  To summarize, run these commands:

% cd /etc/yum.repos.d
% wget http://dev.cnetos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo

Then, edit the .repo file and set the "enabled" value to "1".

% yum list available php
Available Packages
php.i386                                 5.2.6-2.el5s2          c5-testing
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