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120 - To install PHP 5.2.x & MySQL 5.1.x in CentOS 5.x

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 11:10

phpMyAdmin v3.x needs to have PHP 5.2 and later version. But CentOS 5.x has still PHP 5.1.x.
This is one of methods on PHP & MySQL upgrade processes for CentOS 5.x.

1. Check your software versions in terms of PHP & MySQL

# php -v
# yum list installed php*

# mysql -V
# yum list installed mysql*

2. Install third party repository

# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarc...
# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/el5.i386/remi-release-5-6.el5.remi.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm

# wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3...
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

<If only upgrade to PHP 5.2>

You should enable centos-dev, you need to create
/etc/yum.repos.d/centos-test.repo and enter following lines in it:

[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

3.Install new php 5.2.x & mysql 5.1.x

# yum -y --enablerepo=remi,epel update php*
# yum -y --enablerepo=rpmforge update mysql*

4. Check the new versions

# php -v
# mysql -V

5. Restart Apache & MySQL

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart

6.Remove repository, if you need

# rpm -e rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386
# rpm -e remi-release-5-6.el5.remi
# rpm -e epel-release-5-3