I think this is the first question I should have asked.
5.1 is the default on CentOS 5.7. I figured I would upgrade to 5.3, but ran into a dead end when php53-mhash and php53-pear were not available on EPEL or the default repos (?).
Is 5.2 easier to ugprade to? I.e. will it be easier for me to find the modules I need (could not find php53-mhash or php53-pear, but perhaps they are available for php 5.2?)?
EDIT:
Also, since I'm new to CentOS and the repository system, can you please give an example?
From what I understand, there are several steps.
I think this is the first question I should have asked.
5.1 is the default on CentOS 5.7. I figured I would upgrade to 5.3, but ran into a dead end when php53-mhash and php53-pear were not available on EPEL or the default repos (?).
Is 5.2 easier to ugprade to? I.e. will it be easier for me to find the modules I need (could not find php53-mhash or php53-pear, but perhaps they are available for php 5.2?)?
EDIT:
Also, since I'm new to CentOS and the repository system, can you please give an example?
From what I understand, there are several steps.
1.) "Activate" (install?) appropriate repository on your system so that you can download from it.
I think it's something like
rpm -Uvh http://example.com/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/asdf
2.) Then the regular yum update command will check with the newly-installed 3rd part repository as well as the built-in ones:
yum install php53-mhash
please let me know if that all makes sense and is correct. thank you