[SOLVED] Yum PHP update not working

[stepstoolmm]

Hello Everyone,

This is on a GoDaddy VDS, CentOS. Trying to upgrade PHP from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4 or whatever is higher so I can install Joomla 1.6B3, so I went:

yum update php

But "no packages marked for update" was returned. So I cleaned the yum cache, but the same problem. Any ideas?

[devils casper]

Which version of CentOS are you using? Have checked the version of php in repositories of CentOS?

[ras.su]

solve your problem? for centos not a problem upgrade to last php version.

[pgsmith1]

Presumably 5.1.6 is the latest version in the repos that you are using (so you're probably on CentOS 4.x). You could upgrade to CentOS 5, or try adding this repo: jasonlitka .com/yum-repository/

[stepstoolmm]

Hey, sorry, had internet access troubles, couldn't get online to check or reply.

Version of CentOS is 5.4 Final

I found a link, but I can't post the URL since I haven't made 15 posts. It's on the CentOS wiki, title is: HowTos/PHP 5.1 To 5.2

And I think that will help me, however I'm really new at linux, so I'm slightly afraid I'll bung something up. Can someone at least confirm that those instructions will help?

[stepstoolmm]

Which version of CentOS are you using? Have checked the version of php in repositories of CentOS?

This is going to sound really stupid, but how do I check the repositories? Googling has led me to learning that v5.2 had PHP version 5.1.6 (what I'm trying to upgrade from), but I can't find anything about c5.4...although I could assume that it's the same.

The CentOS wiki has been of some help with the upgrade instructions...at least I think. I'm not Linux-smart enough yet. Le sigh.

[stepstoolmm]

Okay, so I followed the instructions above, and received this error:


Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
* base: p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
* extras: p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
* update: p3plmirror01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
addons | 951 B 00:00
base | 2.1 kB 00:00
http ://dev.centos.org/centos/%24releaserver/testing/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: c5-testing. Please verify its path and try again

Did some searching, and the only topic was on the CentOS forum where the guy/gal hard-coded rather than used /$releaserver/. But I have used it in my CentOS-Testing.repo file.

[stepstoolmm]

Also, yum clean all doesn't solve the problem.

[devils casper]

Execute this

yum repolist

Post output here.

[stepstoolmm]

0.o I found a typo in the repo path. There was an extra "r" a la /releaserver/ rather than /releasever/

Problem solved!