Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Dave, this really works - I run Drupal 7 at my CentOS 5.6 machine with the native php53 and postgresql84 packages. Just remove the older php packages first. Regards Alex ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Cross
On 30 April 2011 07:35, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2011/4/30 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6. My main use of PHP on the server is to support an installation of WordPress. I

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Lucian
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 April 2011 07:35, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2011/4/30 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6. My main use of

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:19:49AM +0100, Lucian wrote: It's not really that risky, just rpm -e --nodeps and then yum install php53 packages. Do not follow this advice at all; it will most likely wreck your server. Contact Plesk support or your hosting provider's support department and ask

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Cross
On 1 May 2011 08:50, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:19:49AM +0100, Lucian wrote: It's not really that risky, just rpm -e --nodeps and then yum install php53 packages. Do not follow this advice at all; it will most likely wreck your server. Contact

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:40:13AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: This is exactly what worried me. Thanks for confirming my fears. Something else I should have pointed out earlier is that the php53 package from TUV does _not_ have a Provide: php in effect; meaning that this is not a fully drop-in

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Cross
On 1 May 2011 09:40, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2011 08:50, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:19:49AM +0100, Lucian wrote: It's not really that risky, just rpm -e --nodeps and then yum install php53 packages. Do not follow this advice at

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread Lucian
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:50 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:19:49AM +0100, Lucian wrote: It's not really that risky, just rpm -e --nodeps and then yum install php53 packages. Do not follow this advice at all; it will most likely wreck your server.

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-05-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:02:13PM +0100, Lucian wrote: What I advised wouldn't have horribly broken his setup; fixing it would've been as simple and fast as uninstalling php53 and reinstalling old php 5.1, 1 minute job. Broken is broken; it doesn't matter that it is trivial to fix, it would

[CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-04-30 Thread Dave Cross
I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6. My main use of PHP on the server is to support an installation of WordPress. I currently had WP 3.1.2 installed, but the WP developers have announced that from WP 3.2 they will only support PHP

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-04-30 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/30 Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com: I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6. My main use of PHP on the server is to support an installation of WordPress. I currently had WP 3.1.2 installed, but the WP developers have announced

Re: [CentOS] Switching to php53

2011-04-30 Thread Jussi Hirvi
I would try to first yum erase php, and then install the php53 version. - Jussi On 30.4.2011 9.29, Dave Cross wrote: I have a Centos 5.6 server which is using the default php packages. These currently contain PHP 5.1.6. My main use of PHP on the server is to support an installation of