My dedicated server still runs on ubuntu jaunty. I wanted to move on to php 5.3 (php 5.2.16 was the final release of the php 5.2 series). The issue is: php 5.3 is not available in jaunty repositories, because it will stay at 5.2.
Installing php 5.3 was simple, just add to:
$ vim /etc/apt/sources.list
the following:
deb http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://php53.dotdeb.org stable all
Install the dotdeb pgp key:
# curl http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg | apt-key add -
Update the apt cache and upgrade php5:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install php5
But when you want to install phpmyadmin again now, it fails.
php5-mcrypt: Depends: libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2) but it is not installable
Luckily you can get that (mcrypt) by adding the lenny updates repository manually:
# vim /etc/apt/sources.list
add:
http://security.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main
Install the debian gpg:
# gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 9AA38DCD55BE302B
Now update again:
# apt-get update
and install php5-mcrypt flawlessly:
# apt-get php5-mcrypt
I commented out the new sources.list entries after the install, because I don't need them to be checked on every update.
