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Just created a new Fedora VM and it has PHP 5.3 loaded, and I have legacy code that references functions that are now deprecated ( e.g. eregi() ).

How can I downgrade my PHP install from 5.3 to something earlier like 5.2? Installation via YUM would be preferred but if anyone knows of any way I'd like to know how.

Thanks,

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Which Fedora version are you using ? – proy Jan 19 '10 at 21:35
Fedora 12. From uname -a: Linux barfoon 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux – barfoon Jan 19 '10 at 21:39
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I am a hard core Ubuntu user but this is how it goes as far as i remember from my earlier days. Do a "yum search php" and see if the version you are looking for is there. If so un install the older version of php via "yum remove <>' and then install the available version with "yum install <>". I guess this is the only possible way via yum.

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Thanks - I have tried this and it did not work. PHP 5.3 is the only one available in the repo. – barfoon Jan 19 '10 at 22:25
May be then the only option is to un install the current version and then install from sources. – proy Jan 19 '10 at 23:40
you could try adding repositories to your yum configs – warren Jan 20 '10 at 0:13
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Check this link in Fedora Forums fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=234132 , it says how to do it for Fedora 11. You can work based on that link for Fedora 12 too. – proy Jan 20 '10 at 9:55
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