PHP 5.1 to 5.2 on Fedora Core 5

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Posted by kye172, 07-09-2008, 08:47 AM
Hi all, Im a little new to Linux to be honest, played with it a few years ago but never anything serious I have a Fedora Core 5 VPS currently running PHP 5.1.6, and wish to upgrade to 5.2 so I can run Magento eCommerce software. I've managed to install yum, and after running yum update php, it just updates to 5.1.x still My understanding of it currently is I need to point it to new repositories with 5.2 in? If anyone can give me a simple solution it would be much appreciated, preferably something idiot proof as I can't risk knocking out my websites if/when I mess up lol Regards, Kyle
Posted by ServerSurgeon George, 07-09-2008, 10:23 AM
Hi, Try the following: Please let me know if you have any problems.
Posted by kye172, 07-09-2008, 01:00 PM
root@vps869 ~]# tar xfz rpms.tar.gz [root@vps869 ~]# rpm -ivh *.src.rpm error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES [root@vps869 ~]# Get that far and that? I'm logged in as root too Regards, Kyle Last edited by Christian; 07-09-2008 at 04:53 PM. Reason: Removed question regarding services
Posted by ServerSurgeon George, 07-09-2008, 05:09 PM
You forgot to run the first yum command which installs the requirements(rpm-build, gcc, etc)
Posted by kye172, 07-09-2008, 05:11 PM
I had done that, sorry, I'd only pasted part of the command line log I have solved the problem now, I found another repository that enabled me to just use yum update php Thanks for your help Kyle