We would like to upgrade our version of PHP to 5.6 as that’s the preferred version for the latest Matrix install but as we use Scientific Linux 6x I’m not sure where the best place to get the core PHP files from is. I know there’s third party repositories such as remi and webtatic but they all say use at your own risk in effect and I don’t know if Squiz has tested any of them? Any advice would be great.
Hi, I tried SCL but it didn’t want to install:
yum install sl-release-scl
No package sl-release-scl available.
Those pages looked quite old.
I’m not sure it’s supported anymore? I’m happy to use Remi so long as Squiz are OK with that - would it affect our Squiz SLA?
Cheers
Hi James,
If you’re on SLA, it’s best to talk directly with Squiz Support about upgrading.
That said, I think from a minimal SL6 install it’s always nessasarry to pull down the SCL config RPM directly, e.g:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/external_products/softwarecollections/x86_64/yum-conf-softwarecollections-2.0-1.el6.noarch.rpmExcellent that did the trick, many thanks.