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barfoon
Asked: 2010-01-20 12:27:49 +0800 CST

How can I downgrade my version of PHP?

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Just created a new Fedora VM and it has PHP 5.3 loaded, and I have legacy code that references functions that are now deprecated ( e.g. eregi() ).

How can I downgrade my PHP install from 5.3 to something earlier like 5.2? Installation via YUM would be preferred but if anyone knows of any way I'd like to know how.

Thanks,

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I am a hard core Ubuntu user but this is how it goes as far as i remember from my earlier days. Do a "yum search php" and see if the version you are looking for is there. If so un install the older version of php via "yum remove <>' and then install the available version with "yum install <>". I guess this is the only possible way via yum.

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  2. I was able to install php 5.3 on Fedora 17 using atomic repo

    http://www6.atomicorp.com/channels/atomic/fedora/17/x86_64/RPMS/

    You will need to remove php and httpd first

    yum remove php
yum remove httpd

    Add the following at the end of /etc/yum.conf

    exclude=php*5.4*

    Install php from atomic repo

    wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh
yum install php
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