install php 5.2 on 2010.0/2010.1

secretlydead · 07-07-2010, 02:52 AM

i have some web software that doesn't work on php 5.3 - is there a way i can install php 5.2.x on 2010.0/2010.1?

GlennsPref · 07-08-2010, 11:56 AM

Hi, you should be able to get php5.2.9 from Mandriva 2009.1 install disks, or the repo.

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

Select Version (2009.1) and then follow the directions of that page.

Task-lamp may be the meta package you need.

Quote:

task-lamp - Metapackage for the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl server

This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain dependencies for running LAMP-server, allowing easy installation of a comprehensive LAMP testing/development setup. For a production server, you may prefer to install a subset of the dependencies.

Quote:

task-lamp-extras - Metapackage for the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python extras This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to add additional packages for a LAMP setup that are not strictly required, but are often provided in other similar bundles. These extra packages are usually a convenience, and not recommended for use on production servers without securing them.

You should be able to remove the 5.3 ver of php with

Code:

urpme php -a

All the best, Glenn

secretlydead · 07-08-2010, 08:36 PM

what i actually had to do was:

sudo urpme task-lamp-php
sudo urpmi --auto-orphans

and then urpmi task-lamp-php with the new repo's.

of course, i dd'ed my partition before starting on this journey, and i'll update here if my computer melts or anything.

anyway, the problem now is how am i going to urpmi --auto-update? do i just set the system to fetch from all repo's or do i just not auto-update?

GlennsPref · 07-08-2010, 09:45 PM

You can use the skip.list in /etc/urpmi/

/etc/urpmi/skip.list

Code:

# Here you can specify the packages that won't be upgraded automatically
# for example, to exclude all apache packages :
# /^apache/
/^x11-driver-video-nvidia-current/
/^nvidia-current-kernel/
/^dkms-nvidia-current/
/^kaffeine/
/^amarok/
/^kernel/
/^drakx-installer*/
/^smart-gui*/
/^smart*/

for example...
you need root access to save this file!

But you can still upgrade them with a different tool, like smart and rpm (cli)

smart has a version padlock instead to exclude packages.