How to Upgrade PHP to 5.4.10 on CentOS 6.3

Question

# cat /etc/redhat-release
  CentOS release 6.3 (Final)

# php -v
  PHP 5.3.3

# yum update php
  No Packages marked for Update

How do I upgrade to the latest version PHP 5.4.10 (Current stable) ?

Answer 1

You can use the remi repository, which provides PHP 5.4 as well as MySQL 5.5 and some other LAMP related stuff not available with CentOS base or EPEL. If you use this repository, I strongly recommend the yum-versionlock plugin to ensure that your version of PHP remains on the 5.4 branch.

Answer 2

You can use remi like Michael Hampton suggested, but for sake of completeness, you can also compile your own php.

Download

You can download the latest version of php 5.4.10 from here. Or in the event that my link is outdated by the time someone else sees this, you can go to main php download page and navigate as well.

Dev Tools

You'll need basic development tools, and you should be able to get that through a group install.

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Required Libraries

You'll also need bunch of libraries to compile PHP. The following is a mere sample list. You may need to adjust depending on additional modules you are installing.

yum install libxml2-devel httpd-devel libXpm-devel gmp-devel libicu-devel \
    t1lib-devel aspell-devel openssl-devel bzip2-devel libcurl-devel \
    libjpeg-devel libvpx-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel readline-devel \
    libtidy-devel libxslt-devel

Another common library often used is mcrypt (libmcrypt-devel), but that's available under rpmforge and not the base.

Compiling

Once all the requirements are set, actual compilation is fairly simple.

Extract the php you downloaded earlier and enter directory.

tar jxf php-5.4.*.tar.bz2
cd php-5.4.10

Configure the PHP with stuff you want enabled.

./configure --enable-zip --[etc. This list can get pretty long...]

You can see a full list of PHP configuration options here.

Then finalize with build.

make
make install

Now you have php 5.4.* on your Centos 6.

Answer 3

Remi Dependency on CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6:

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6:

# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Update your PHP:

# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install httpd php php-common

CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8

Update your modules:

# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pgsql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-apache-php-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/