How do I upgrade PHP on CentOS and Kloxo?

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Published on 2011-09-17T20:40:34Z Indexed on 2012/04/10 5:33 UTC
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I need to upgrade PHP so that I can upgrade joomla on my dedicated server. I have:

  • kloxo 6.1.6
  • php-5.2.17-1
  • Linux CentOS-55-64-minimal 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I searched everywhere and I could only find that PHP 5.3 isn't compatible with zend. I would like to upgrade to 5.2.4, which is the minimum for joomla 1.6 and 1.7.

I tried to run:

yum update php.x86_64

Which is the PHP package installed, but it didn't work.

This is a production server with quite a few users across many sites, so I wanted to do it as safely as possible.

Is it safe to run "yum update"? It showed me 6 packages to install and 125 packages to update, including a kernel. Is that safe? I haven't touched kloxo's yum repositories.

Update:

I just successfully ran "yum update".

Now I think I need to know how to add a new repository that has the 5.2.4 and how to update to that specific version.

Any ideas?

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