Johan Mares said... | |It is easy to install a webserver with SL, but more and more we are |having trouble because the versions that come with either SL4.4 (PHP |4.3.9) or SL5.0 (PHP5.1.6) are not recent enough to use current versions |of third party software (for example Mapserver needs PHP 4.4.6 or |5.2.1). I've installed LAMP manually, but that was at home, not for a |production environment. I would like to keep on using SL, the apache and |mysql that comes with it are ok too, but what is the best means to |install a more recent version of PHP (5.2.1 or maybe even the 5.2.3) and |how do you update/maintain it ? With PHP I am not only referring to the |PHP module, but also to the PHP-SOAP, |PHP-PEAR, PHP-mbstring, PHP-mcrypt, ...
Along with whatever you are requesting here you might also fuss at the people writing the packages you are trying to install, or the people packaging it. A lot of times there is no reason for requiring the most up to date packages. Also, do they "really* need these, or is it just the package manager because of whatever they built on? Did you try installing on a non-production system with "--nodeps"? This is one of the downsides to the anarchy of free software.
