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I've currently got 5.2.10 on my centos 5.5 server.

I downloaded 5.2.17 archive, ./configure, ./make and ./make install

The installation completed successfully, with no errors but php -v still shows 5.2.10.

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Installing packages from source by hand is frowned upon for this reason. It WILL make a mess out of your system.

  • Files might not install where they are expected (such as you found out)
  • You will have potential conflicts if old files didnt get replaced in the new version try to load into the new version (like modules)
  • Anything that depends on php expecting a certain version will not get the version it expects and might not work
  • Files will be installed to the system but wont ever be able to be cleaned up as they arent being tracked by the RPM system
  • When you go to install additional modules for php you will also have to build those for hand as the ones in the RPM repos youre using are for a different version

In other words, do not do that. It is bad.

If you cant find at least a SRPM somewhere that you can rebuild (which I was able to by the way), take the spec file from the closest version you can find and version bump it to the one you want.

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You were right, i removed 5.2.10. Then found an rpm for 5.2.17 and it's installed correctly now. – gAMBOOKa Feb 6 '11 at 12:43
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Try(by default php install in /usr/local/):

/usr/local/bin/php -v
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That one is 5.2.17, where do i change the path? – gAMBOOKa Feb 6 '11 at 11:56
see /etc/profile file – alvosu Feb 6 '11 at 12:04
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