I need PHP 5.4 installed in an Amazon Linux instance.
Presently we have:
root@ip-10-138-1-229 webapps]$ php -version
PHP 5.3.29 (cli) (built: Aug 20 2014 16:41:34)
Is there a yum package for this?
$ yum install php-5.4
Loaded plugins: priorities, security, update-motd, upgrade-helper
Setting up Install Process
No package php-5.4 available.
Error: Nothing to do
Let us try to update yum for php:
yum update php
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Updating:
php x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 2.8 M
Updating for dependencies:
php-bcmath x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 52 k
php-cli x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 2.6 M
php-common x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 1.0 M
php-gd x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 219 k
php-process x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 66 k
php-xml x86_64 5.3.29-1.7.amzn1 amzn-main 234 k
Well that’s getting us latest/greatest php 5.3 How to get 5.4?
Maybe PHP 5.4 were not supported yet on Amazon Linux?
UPDATE : slightly updated from @vembutech answer below:
(Run as root):
yum remove httpd*
yum remove $(yum list installed | grep "php" | awk '{print $1}')
yum install httpd24 php54
Now we can use the new nifty builtin httpd server from php 5.4:
root@ip-10-138-1-229 nanoweb_2.2.6]$ php -S localhost:8000
PHP 5.4.37 Development Server started at Fri Feb 20 20:31:22 2015
Listening on http://localhost:8000
Document root is /root/nanoweb_2.2.6
Press Ctrl-C to quit.
Best Answer
First you need to remove the older version and install the new version,
use the below command to remove httpd service.
Get the List of PHP packages installed using the command
Remove Packages
Now you can install next higher version of httpd and php using yum install command,