If you followed my previous post on downgrading your PHP installation, this may be of interest to you, since the Karmic security repositories are no longer available. There may be workarounds, but I couldn’t install PHP 5.2 following my previous instructions.
Here’s a different way to do it, that proved successful. Note that the install procedures outlined below, is for a fresh install of Ubuntu Server without the LAMP package selected during installation. If you want to adapt a system with 5.2 already installed, I’m sure you can figure it out using this post for inspiration.. 😛
First, you need to install add-apt-repository (root is assumed on all commands unless otherwise stated):
apt-get install add-apt-repository
Add the following into /etc/apt/preferences.d/php to pin PHP at version 5.2:
</pre> Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libapache2-<wbr>mod-php5filter Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991</wbr> Package: php-pear Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5 Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-cgi Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-cli Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-common Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-curl Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-dbg Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-dev Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-gd Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-gmp Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-ldap Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-mhash Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-mysql Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-odbc Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-pgsql Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-pspell Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-recode Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-snmp Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-sqlite Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-sybase Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-tidy Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-xmlrpc Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-xsl Pin: version 5.2.10* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-mcrypt Pin: version 5.2.6* Pin-Priority: 991 Package: php5-imap Pin: version 5.2.6* Pin-Priority: 991
Now, we’ll be using PHP 5.2 compiled for Lucid Lynx (courtesy of Ralph Janke). Add Ralphs repository:
add-apt-repository ppa:txwikinger/php5.2
Update apt:
apt-get update
Install PHP 5.2:
apt-get install php5
Install MySQL if needed:
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
There. You should have a LAMP server up and running with PHP 5.2, without having to worry about Karmics repositories being gone, or an accidental upgrade to 5.3.
