I just ran the command below to update PHP on my system (twice, forgot I ran it before).
curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.5
Output
Detected OS X Mavericks 10.9 All ok.
Get packager.tgz
Unpack packager.tgz
Please type in your password, as we want to install this into /usr/local
Password:
Start packager (may take some time)
downloading http://php-osx.liip.ch/install/5.5-10.8-frontenddev-latest.dat
downloading http://php-osx.liip.ch/install/5.5-10.8/frontenddev/5.5-10.8-frontenddev-5.5.27-20150710-221744.tar.bz2
Installing package 5.5-10.8-frontenddev into root /
Package 5.5-10.8-frontenddev is already installed at version 5.5.27-20150710-221744. You wanted to install version 5.5.27-20150710-221744.
However when I run php --version
I get
PHP 5.4.17 (cli) (built: Aug 25 2013 02:03:38)
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
which php tells me `/usr/bin/php`
How can I get my system to use 5.5 ?
Best Answer
try
If you want that php to become the default when you type php at the command line, run this:
then close your terminal and open a new one or run