Upgrading Instructions

Shawazi

Does anyone know where instructions on installing 5.2.1 are? The manual on php.net still has version 4 in their example. I need to install on a linux box and so there are no RPMs, just source files and I do not know how to do an upgrade like that.

bradgrafelman

Shawazi wrote:
The manual on php.net still has version 4 in their example.

Really? Looking at the page for [man]install.unix[/man], I see PHP5 references all over the place. In fact, it looks like the default choice in their instructions is PHP5, and then they offer a "...(or do X for PHP4)..." clause after that.

Shawazi

Click Debian GNU/Linux installation notes.
I did find this one, but it's on an unfamiliar site. What do you think?

Instructions

bradgrafelman

I'd say it sounds the same as the basic Unix instructions - you just have to watch the paths and make sure they are valid for your server.

If nothing else, there are APT repositories that have PHP5 available, if you're familiar with the apt-get command.