如何将PHP 5.3.3更新为PHP 5.3.8 Linux Centos

Question

I want to update my php 5.3.3 to php 5.3.8, I already downloaded PHP5.3.8.tar.gzip.

My PHP 5.3.3 located in /usr/bin/php. When I try to install PHP5.3.8.tar.gzip and do this command:

./configure
make
make install

It installed in different location /usr/local/bin/php.

So now I have 2 php 5.3.3 and php 5.3.8. So I try to install it again and run this

./configure -prefix=/usr/bin/php
make
make install

This time an error occurred:

Installing PHP SAPI module:       cgi
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/bin/php': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/bin/php/bin': Not a directory
make: [install-sapi] Error 1 (ignored)
Installing PHP CGI binary: /usr/bin/php/bin/
cp: accessing `/usr/bin/php/bin/#INST@29239#': Not a directory
make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1

Please help me, I want to delete the php5.3.8 I installed in /usr/local/bin/php and update the /usr/bin/php to php5.3.8. I need php5.3.8 version only.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Generally on CentOS, you want to leave this sort of thing to yum.

yum update php

or

sudo yum update php

You can also replace the installation with a newer version. 5.3.X is not supported any longer, so you could do:

yum install yum-plugin-replace
yum replace php --replace-with php55

If you don't have php 5.5 in yum, first do this:

cd ~
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-11.ius.centos6.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm ius-release-1.0-11.ius.centos6.noarch.rpm

If you don't have wget installed:

yum install wget

PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL OTHERS FINDING THIS THROUGH GOOGLE!!!

The URL's that I linked in the wget commands are the current releases of the epel and ius repos for CentOS 6. (It may also be out of date.)

If you have RHEL or CentOS 5, you can find the specific link for your RPM here: http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/