Upgrade/update php to latest 5.2.17 in Linux

In a CentOS 5.5 host, we were required to upgrade php to its latest release which is 5.2.17 when writing this article. Again there are various options to do such upgrade and trying to install with the package manager (yum) is just one (aka easy) of them. You can also trying downloading latest source code and compile yourself to have better control but for ease of use, I’m updating php with yum here.

Again, you won’t find the latest PHP binaries in default repositories available with CentOS and to resolve that we need to have CentAlt repo (or other such repos like epel).

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July 28th, 2011 | Posted in php | 1 Comment

Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.4 is needed by package libsndfile

In mood to listen some music on my CentOS 5 system, I found that mplayer is not installed.
I’ve followed instructions from http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS
but stuck with error:

Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.4 is needed by package libsndfile

I have then forcebly removed following:

$ rpm -e --nodeps flac-1.1.2-27

and installed:

$ wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/RPMS/flac-1.1.0-4.rhel3.dag.i386.rpm
 $ rpm -ivh flac-1.1.0-4.rhel3.dag.i386.rpm

This resolved the error and system is now happily playing music.

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June 18th, 2008 | Posted in General | 1 Comment