As I noted in my last post, I recently took the hard and dirty path of trying to upgrade php and mysql on my web server.
This was driven by my need to have PHP 5.13 and support for SimpleXMLElement->addChild() .
Unfortunately, support ended on the standard repo’s for FC4 some time ago. This meant that I would have to download and recompile if I wanted to have an upgrade path for php. I don’t have that kind of energy.
Luckily I was able to use some google-fu, and find a solution.
This site Les RPM de Remi, albeit in french, provides an awesome repo, and compatibility updates for RHEL 4 and 5, FC 3,4,5,6 and more.
This means I had a nice easy path to upgrading php and mysql.
See the details below to see how easy it was to update mysql 4 to mysql 5, and php 5.04 to php 5.25 .
To utilize for FC 4, follow these instructions:
UPDATE: The repo uri has changed below since I last published this.
1 . Install the remi rpm .
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-4.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-4.rpm
2. Install the remi yum repository.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-fedora.repo
3. Update – Update – Update
This should find all dependencies and include them.
I suggest doing mysql first, as php update may fail if you don’t.
yum --enablerepo=remi update mysql
yum --enablerepo=remi update php
So far everything worked flawlessly for me.
But YMMV. Backup your databases.
Be prepared to re-install your OS, or be smart enough to undo what you are doing.
Use caution, and enjoy.
Awesome! I’ve been suffering through the same sort of problems, recently, on fc6 (need php 5.2 for PHPSpec). Thanks for saving me another week of painful headaches
Awesome! I’ve been suffering through the same sort of problems, recently, on fc6 (need php 5.2 for PHPSpec). Thanks for saving me another week of painful headaches
Hmm just tried but got the following, looks like the remi rpm is unnavailable?
# wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/remi-release-4.rpm
–12:15:55– http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/remi-release-4.rpm
=> `remi-release-4.rpm'
Resolving remi.collet.free.fr… 212.27.63.158
Connecting to remi.collet.free.fr|212.27.63.158|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 403 Forbidden
12:15:56 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Looks like they moved to more permanent hosting. The new uri looks like http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-4.rpm.
Thanks for the heads up.
Hey, looks like the .repo file seems to be gone
http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-fedora.rep giving 404
can you paste yours?
Looks like a typo in the link. Try http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-fedora.repo
–> Running transaction check
–> Processing Dependency: libsqlite.so.0 for package: php-pdo
–> Processing Dependency: any-php-sqlite2 for package: sb-publish
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: any-php-sqlite2 is needed by package sb-publish
Error: Missing Dependency: libsqlite.so.0 is needed by package php-pdo
Anyone got advise for the error above?
I run into the same problem:
Error: Missing Dependency: libsqlite.so.0 is needed by package php-pdo
Does anyone know how to fix this error?