No, you don't. Since CentOS 5.6, PHP 5.3 is part of the base repository. You are right, "yum install php" installs 5.1, but you don't have to download anything to install 5.3, just type "yum install php53".
Gergo Erdosi On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes but you have to download those RPM's manually. If you just use the > default repo (i.e. "yum install php") as most sysadmins do, you're gonna > get something MUCH older than that. Plus there are still occasions where a > manual build is preferable to using an RPM. > > --Kris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php