PHP Install on Mandrake

[Guest faithfulman]

Hi all,

 

I am wanting to know if it is possible to upgrade my version of PHP.

 

I am using Mandrake MNF 8.2 linux and I believe it has PHP version 4.1.2.

 

I need to upgrade something newer than 4.2

 

 

 

I cant find an RPM that says it's for 8.2? Does anyone know where I should look or is this a lost cause?

 

~~ Faithfulman

[DJ_Max]

I would upgrade to 5, as there isn't much different between 4.1 & 4.2 besides the global variables.

 

It would be better to just uninstall PHP4 & install a newer version manually.

 

Anyway, look into the cooker rpm packages.

Edited September 8, 2004 by DJ_Max

[Guest faithfulman]

Does anyone have some experience in this .... or can point me to a website?

[DJ_Max]

If you have the RPM of PHP installed, it's very easy tp upgrade.

To check:

rpm -q php

If it returns back the package. then...

 

Like I said, look at the "Cooker RPM Packages"

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

 

Say you have a i586 system:

rpm -U ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/php432-
devel-4.3.8-3mdk.i586.rpm

[Guest faithfulman]

Does anyone know for sure if the PHP packages for Mandrake 10 will install on Mandrake 8?

[Guest Martijn]

I also want to upgrade my PHP from 4.3.8 to 4.3.11 and looked on ftp.phys.ttu.edu.

 

I didn't find the 4.3.8 file but found php432-devel-4.3.11-1mdk.i586.rpm

 

Is it possible to install php 4.3.11 from this file or do i still need to make a php rpm via the procedure described on the cooker pages?

[adamw]

Nothing built on Cooker has a hope in _hell_ of working on 8.2. The very first thing you want to do is stop using 8.2, as you seem to be running some kind of a server (why else would you need PHP?) and 8.2 stopped getting security updates quite a while ago, so it's a fairly large security problem if you're going to use it as a server. If you really, really must keep using it, your best option is just to build PHP 5 yourself from the tarballs, I think.