A customer of ours was looking to upgrade their php to 5.3.17+ following the guide:
\nhttp:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/knowledge_center\/article\/how-to-installupgrade-php-53-for-centos-5x<\/p>\n
Unfortunately this guide is specifically tailored for CentOS 5 instead of CentOS 6, which really broke the customers dependencies.<\/p>\n
when running the command ‘yum upgrade php’ there were getting the following error:
\nError: Package: php-common-5.3.29-4.w5.x86_64 (webtatic) Requires: libcurl.so.3()(64bit) Error: Package: php-snmp-5.3.29-4.w5.x86_64 (webtatic) Requires: libnetsnmp.so.10()(64bit) You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest<\/p>\n
The first thing to do was to<\/p>\n
Step 1. <\/p>\n
\r\nrun a \"CREATE IMAGE\". Just in case.\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 2.<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo vim \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/webtatic.repo\r\n<\/pre>\nThe file should look like , with enabled=0<\/p>\n
\r\n[webtatic]\r\nname=Webtatic Repository $releasever - $basearch\r\n#baseurl=http:\/\/repo.webtatic.com\/yum\/centos\/5\/$basearch\/\r\nmirrorlist=http:\/\/mirror.webtatic.com\/yum\/centos\/5\/$basearch\/mirrorlist\r\nenabled=0\r\ngpgcheck=1\r\ngpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-webtatic-andy\r\n<\/pre>\nAgain, make sure that enabled is now 0. This disables the webtatic repo.<\/p>\n
Then re-run:
\nStep 3:<\/p>\nsudo yum install php php-cli php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring<\/p>\n
This fixed all their badly borked deps. Then the next step was to get the latest PHP 5 support , and show the customer how to use the correct repository, and even after overcoming the dependency issues, there was a new issue now,<\/p>\n
\r\nError: php54w-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.3-46.el6_6.x86_64\r\n<\/pre>\nSolving this was quite simple too, after an hour or so of research.<\/p>\n
Step 1: Make Backup<\/p>\n
\r\nplease make a backup image before carrying out this procedure to ensure you have a roll back point.\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 2 : Check PHP Packages<\/p>\n
\r\n yum list installed | grep php\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 3: Use correct webtatic repository<\/p>\n
\r\n rpm -Uvh http:\/\/mirror.webtatic.com\/yum\/el6\/latest.rpm\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 4: Install yum replace package addin and replace php-common conflicted package with php54w-common <\/p>\n
\r\nyum install yum-plugin-replace\r\nyum replace php-common --replace-with=php54w-common\r\n<\/pre>\nStep 5:<\/p>\n
\r\nyum install php54w.x86_64 php54w-cli.x86_64 php54w-common.x86_64 php54w-gd.x86_64 php54w-ldap.x86_64 php54w-mbstring.x86_64 php54w-mcrypt.x86_64 php54w-mysql.x86_64 php54w-pdo.x86_64\r\n<\/pre>\nI have tested this and it does seem to work. However, again, please make a backup image before carrying out this procedure to ensure you have a roll back point. I also don’t recommend doing it.<\/p>\n
Well, it worked, yay<\/p>\n
\r\n[root@centos6test ~]# php -v\r\nPHP 5.4.44 (cli) (built: Aug 9 2015 13:45:34)\r\nCopyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group\r\nZend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A customer of ours was looking to upgrade their php to 5.3.17+ following the guide: http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/knowledge_center\/article\/how-to-installupgrade-php-53-for-centos-5x Unfortunately this guide is specifically tailored for CentOS 5 instead of CentOS 6, which really broke the customers dependencies. when running the command ‘yum … Continue reading