yum update PHP dependency problems!

[mercury161]

Hi Linux people - I have searched and searched and I can see other with similar problems to this, but no guaranteed fix it solution! I can't risk messing this up as its in production.

Basically we have a server with RHEL 5.4 and Plesk 9.3, running PHP 5.1.6. I need to get PHP up to 5.3 however yum upgrade is failing like this:

--> Processing Dependency: sendmail = 8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 for package: sendmail-cf
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
php-soap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-soap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mysql = 5.0.77-4.el5_6.6 is needed by package mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: sendmail = 8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 is needed by package sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-imap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-imap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-xml-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-xml-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-gd-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-gd-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 from rhel-i386-server-5 has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: mysql = 5.0.77-4.el5_6.6 is needed by package mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_6.6.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-imap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-xml-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-soap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-gd-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: sendmail = 8.13.8-8.1.el5_7 is needed by package sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)
Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 is needed by package php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 (rhel-i386-server-5)

Here is my repo info:

repo id repo name status
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 enabled: 5,552
epel-debuginfo Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 - Debug disabled
epel-source Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 - Source disabled
epel-testing Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - i386 disabled
epel-testing-debuginfo Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - i386 - Debug disabled
epel-testing-source Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Testing - i386 - Source disabled
rhel-debuginfo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server - i386 - Debug disabled
rhel-i386-server-5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) enabled: 9,408
rhel-i386-server-supplementary-5 RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) enabled: 784
rhel-i386-server-vt-5 RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 for 32-bit x86) enabled: 230
repolist: 15,974


/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-debuginfo.repo


I am no expert, but I know my way around enough to screw up our system. Can anyone advise how I should be proceed, preferably the lowest risk route?!

Many thanks

[mercury161]

I forgot to say - I have done yum clean all and the usual troubleshooting stuff... to no avail!

[pradeeprajkumar]

I'm not sure about this,but you shall try,

yum groupupdate <package_name>

.
Here is a reference.
15 Linux Yum Command Examples – Install, Uninstall, Update Packages

[atreyu]

Without looking closely at the software available at the various repos, I'd hazard a guess that EPEL is clashing with RHEL. If you really need PHP 5.3, well that is tough...especially as this is a production server. Do you not have another system that you can configure similarly and then test on?

Also, can you show the command(s) you are using to perform the attempted PHP install?

[Foreclosure]

Dependency problems? Yum never has dependency problems!