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Best Practice for upgrading PHP On Production Systems

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http://serverfault.com – We Have two load balanced web servers running php 5.3. I've been asked by our dev team to upgrade php to 5.4 because they need certain functionality it will bring. The main issue is that 5.3 is the latest thats been built into the distros repository, so to upgrade using the package manager, Ill need to add another 3rd party repo. I dont have a problem with this per se, but Im concerned about using a package from a "non official" source. The other option is to compile php from source, but I guess this will prevent me from using the package manager to upgrade at any stage in the future? So I g (HowTos)

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Submitted by u85500 on 10/10/2012

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I use Ubuntu 12.04 and say I have installed package x from the repository (with all its dependencies) at version 1.7

But I need some functionality that is only available in version 1.8, so I download the source tar and compile it:

./configure make make install

Does this overwrite the existing 1.7 binaries?

sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Prompt=normal;

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Follow me so far? Hope so....

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Third party sources disabled

Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled.

My update manager does not give me the option to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. That is, the "New distribution release '12.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions" section is not shown.

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