Plesk prevents me from upgrading php 5.1 to 5.3 or higher

[matteosistisette]

I have CentOS 5.9 with Plesk 9.5 and it has PHP 5.1

Now php 5.1 can't be simply upgraded to 5.3 with yum update because php starting from 5.3 is a different package, "php53" (while php 5.1 is just "php").

But I can't install the package php53 without uninstalling php 5.1 because they conflict:
php53-common conflicts with php-common


So I should first uninstall the php package (php 5.1).
BUT I can't because plesk depends on it, so if I uninstall php I will be forced to uninstall Plesk.


So how do I upgrade php to 5.3 while keeping plesk?

Thanks
m.

 

[IgorG]

http://kb.parallels.com/111630

 

[matteosistisette]

Nope. That's about upgrading php 5.3 provided that you already have 5.3 installed. At least that's what it says.
I'm talking about upgrading TO php 5.3, that is, uninstalling 5.1 and installing 5.3 or 5.4 (since upgrading isn't possible).

 

[Amin Taheri]

Try installing and using the atomic repository, it will allow you to upgrade php really easily and provide a lot of great packages.

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh

 

[matteosistisette]

Try installing and using the atomic repository, it will allow you to upgrade php really easily and provide a lot of great packages.

Thanks, how should I upgrade php after installing that? I guess it's a matter of yum-updating php, but maybe I have to be careful not forgetting to update some other package too?
If something goes wrong, will I be able to revert the changes easily?

 

[Amin Taheri]

Hi,

You should be able to just use yum

yum upgrade php

and there is also the downgrade that yum can do too.