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Cody Brown
Cody Brown

Reputation: 375

Upgrading from php 5.5.x to 5.6.x on CentOS 6.7

I've looked around for this topic, but all of the questions related to upgrading php on centOS seem to be pretty outdated. I found https://www.zerostopbits.com/how-to-upgrade-php-5-3-to-php-5-6-on-centos-6-7/ and it seems fairly simple; however, I am not familiar with installing new repos.

There seems to be a decent amount of repos that have the php 5.6 package I need, but I am unsure which would be considered the best or the safest.

Also, is there any incompatibility I should be aware of since CentOS does not offer the most recent version?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3293

Answers (1)

Bonfix Ngetich
Bonfix Ngetich

Reputation: 1227

This is the easiest way that worked for me: To install PHP 5.6 on CentOS 6 or 7:

CentOS 6. Enter the following commands in the order shown:

yum -y update
yum -y install epel-release
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
wget https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm
yum -y update
yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath

CentOS 7. Enter the following commands in the order shown:

yum -y update
yum -y install epel-release
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
rpm -Uvh ius-release*.rpm
yum -y update
yum -y install php56u php56u-opcache php56u-xml php56u-mcrypt php56u-gd php56u-devel php56u-mysql php56u-intl php56u-mbstring php56u-bcmath

See how to upgrade to PHP 7 and more at: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/prereq/php-centos.html

Upvotes: 4

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