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Blizz4rd

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 10

How to install PHP 5.2.17

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Arch and I'm about to install LAMP on a laptop but I need specifically PHP 5.2.17 and I don't see it in AUR.

I read somewhere that it isn't a good pratice to install via the basic ./configure make && make install so I'm a bit lost here...

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Ok: I just found the wiki about downgrading packages, I think that's what I need, will give it a shot...

Last edited by Blizz4rd (2011-08-12 18:18:58)

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

Posts: 217

Re: How to install PHP 5.2.17

Not sure if it's a good idea, but you could use abs to get the PKGBUILD of the stock PHP from extra and then set its $pkgver to 5.2.17. I'm not familiar with php's release policy though. Are critical vulnerability fixes backported to older stable versions upstream?

Blizz4rd

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Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 10

Re: How to install PHP 5.2.17

I think the fixes are backported but I could be wrong.