Fedora Core 3 - upgrading to PHP5 from an RPM

[feenster]

Hi all,
I run a Fedora Core 3 dedicated server, rented from Fasthosts. As it's FC3, PHP is only on 4.3 and I need to move to 5.2. I've downloaded a PHP 5.2.3 RPM from RPMFind.net, and tried to install it, but am getting the following errors:

rpm -Uvh php-5.2.3-2.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        libcrypto.so.6 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        libcurl.so.4 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        libssl.so.6 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        php-cli = 5.2.3-2 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        php-common = 5.2.3-2 is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by php-5.2.3-2.i386
        php = 4.3.11-2.8 is needed by (installed) php-ldap-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        php = 4.3.11-2.8 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        php = 4.3.11-2.8 is needed by (installed) php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        php = 4.3.11-2.8 is needed by (installed) php-gd-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        php = 4.3.11-2.8 is needed by (installed) php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.i386

As i'm more of a Ubuntu person, i'm not quite sure what this is telling me. Is it saying that the things at the end of the list depend on the PHP version that is installed (ie. the version of php-pear i have requires the version of PHP i have)? How can I get around these errors? Is it a case of just find the RPM for each and updating them one by one (but will i keep encountering the same errors!)?

Cheers,
Matt

[retaj]

I had a similar experience with upgrading the mysql included with fedora core 3. I had to uninstall it and then recompile from mysql's source.

Another thing I needed to do was create links in lib to library in lib64. Unfortunately, I don't remember all the details. Hopefully this information gets you started.

[feenster]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I've been trying various things in the last few days, but have decided it would be easier to buy another server with FC6 and transfer the data across. At least that way, i can start from fresh and make sure everything is done right.

Matt