Upgrade PHP 5.1.6 to 5.2.17

[bsass]

I have a nice new clean install of Plesk 9.5.4 on a CentOS 5 server, the problems i'm having is CentOS ships with PHP 5.1.6, my old Plesk server running the same version had 5.2.14, can I install the newest PHP 5.2.X branch from the atomic repos without having Plesk break?
This is what I found on the atomic forums:

http://atomicorp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29857#p29857

yum update php* --exclude=php*5.3*

Thanks,
Bradey

 

[IgorG]

Plesk doesn’t ship client’s PHP, it only downloads it from original OS vendor repo or from third-party repo like Atomic and it is quite likely it may be outdated there (especially for older OS). If your OS or Atomic repo comes with needed PHP version, then Plesk would run this PHP for clients.