i'm running Apache version 2.0.40
Mysql 4.0.20
Php 4.2.2
on REDHAT 9 Shrike

I need Php 4.3 installed

I have searched and tried everything.

Please Could Someone Help me with a guide on how to upgrade php

as its driving me mad.

Since you're on RH, I take it you have PHP 4.2.2 rpm installed. Simply download the latest rpm from PHP site and

rpm -Uvh [ PACKAGE ]


If for some reason you can't obtain PHP 4.3 rpm then uninstall 4.2.2 (rpm -e [PACKAGE]. Download source for 4.3, configure, make, build and install.

i dowloaded all the rpms i thought i might need.
1st - Are they the right rpms



[root@crazymazeysvip phprpms]# ls
php-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm
php-mysql-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm
php-imap-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm
php-odbc-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm
php-ldap-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm

tried to install php-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm got this

[root@crazymazeysvip phprpms]# rpm -Uvh php-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm

warning: php-4.3.2-7.ent.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a
error: Failed dependencies:
httpd-mmn = 20020903 is needed by php-4.3.2-7.ent
libdb-4.1.so is needed by php-4.3.2-7.ent
php = 4.2.2-17 is needed by (installed) php-imap-4.2.2-17
php = 4.2.2-17 is needed by (installed) php-mysql-4.2.2-17
[root@crazymazeysvip phprpms]#


hope ya dont mind but i'm very new to this and hope i'm not asking to much
step by step.

anyone got any ideas what i need to do ?

You need to install all of the packages that is asking you for, go to www.rpmfind.net and look for all of them
httpd-mmn
libdb-4.1.so
php = 4.2.2-17
php = 4.2.2-17

Download them, install them and try to install php again.. When I used to use RH I used to use apt-get to install my rpms, is pretty easy and you don't have to worry about dependency problems because it will install everything you need.

php 4.2.2 is already installed and

i tried apt-get

[root@crazymazeysvip root]# apt-get install libdb-4.1.so
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libdb-4.1.so
[root@crazymazeysvip root]# apt-get install httpd-mmm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package httpd-mmm
[root@crazymazeysvip root]#

what do i do now ?

Did you try to get the rpms from www.rpmfind.net?
Try that, apt-get do not have all the rpms around just the one on the database you are using.

apt-get is completely worthless if you already have php 4.22 installed, because it says you don't need anything newer.

I know, i need 4.3.8 and the damn thing won't get me out of dependency hell.


if anyone has any ideas other than recompiling from source, let me know!

Thanks

I did the same thing.
Have installed redhat 9
php 4.2.2
httpd 2.0.40

And get in to hell of independices.

There is no rpms with php 4.3.8 for redhat 9.
because it is impossible to find
this two libraries

httpd-mmn
libdb-4.1.so

Is there someone already finded a solution how to upgrade PHP?

I finally said to hell with it and upgraded to fedora core 2.

I took the cowards way out... LOL

Yep I decide to do it right now.
I have too many problems with upgrading redhat 9
So in fev minutes I am going to install a fedora core 2.
It works great.

yup -- then install apt-get, set up a cron job to update the machine automagically, and forget about it.

LONG LIVE LINUX! =)


Visit one of my linux boxes -- http://grover.interactnetworks.net

Yep that's what i like.

But anybody knows a quick tutorial for fedora, to make sednmail to relay, I mean enable pop3 with requiring autentication??

i dont get this at all - its nuts!

so you need to install a so you try but you require b

so get you get b but it needs a to install - this is madness

and this is meant to be a viable opperating system for the masses one day?

hmmm

has anyone out there managed to upgrade from php4.2.2 to 4.3.x????

i would love to know if it pos

thanks

andy

Yeah -- welcome to RPM hell, I've been there myself, and usually I just wind up compiling from source. Compiling PHP from source is really not very hard -- I've done it several times and never had any problems. There's a nice walk through of how to do it on the PHP Web site if you run into difficulty. You might also want to look at checkinstall so you can build yourself an RPM. Another idea is to directly try the source RPM for PHP 4.3 and try using rpmbuild, so it will build against the library versions you have installed -- it may work for you, it may not.