How to upgrade PHP to specific version?

Question

I have PHP 5.3.5 on my Ubuntu and I need to have exactly 5.3.8. How can I do such an upgrade?

Answer 1

download from php.net and compile. or http://www.dotdeb.org/2011/08/30/php-5-3-8-is-available/

Answer 2

Maybe you should search from some Ubuntu custom repositories which already has latest PHP versions and maybe also PHP beta versions and you can install it from there without the hassle of downloading and compiling it manually.

Answer 3

We first have to resolve two dependencies required for the dotdeb packages. If you are running the amd64 version, you should replace i386 with amd64.

cd /tmp

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5ubuntu2_i386.deb

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu38_3.8-6ubuntu0.2_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

We'll have to add the dotdeb repository to the APT sources, so we can use their packaged PHP 5.3 and php-fpm:

sudo echo "deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update apt:

sudo apt-get update

The resulting text should include dotdeb.

Now we'll install PHP (part 1):

sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-common php5-suhosin