ES4/Plesk7.5 noob needs some help, please?

blueiris · Unread post by **blueiris** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:03 pm

Awhile ago I had an FC2 box with Plesk 7.5, and I successfully upgraded PHP and mySQL, and also installed Image Magick, using yum and the ART rpms.

Now I've just had an ES4/Plesk 7.5 box provisioned, and I'm a little lost. I read in another thread here that I shouldn't use yum with ES4, but should use up2date.

OK, this is where I'm lost. Is someone willing to describe the steps to configure up2date to use the ART site, and how to be sure I'm getting the rpms from ART? (Yup, I'm a real noob)

Unread post by **scott** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:57 am

if you look at the download pages, Ive got the line you need to put into up2date. Its OK to use yum on a 4ES box, the only reason why you'd want to use up2date instead is to get access to the base/updates channels from redhat (you did pay for them after all!)

blueiris · Unread post by **blueiris** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:14 pm

Thanks Scott - I've now got up2date configured.

Next problem - when I run up2date -l, it shows the mySQL rpms, and php-imap, php-ldap, etc., but then it says "The following packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration," and it lists the php 4.4.2 rpm.

But, I can't find that in the skip list. ??? The only thing there is kernel*. I want to get php updated, and I'm not sure what to do here.

Edit: should mention that the server is currently running php 4.3.9

Unread post by **scott** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:49 pm

I almost never use up2date, so I'm probably not going to tell you to do this the right way, but if you poke around in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/, thats where up2date stores its config files. grep for php, and see if there is anything like the "exclude" statement in a yum.conf referencing php.

blueiris · Unread post by **blueiris** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:30 pm

Thanks, Scott - I'll give that a shot. I'm thinking about installing yum anyways, and using that for php/mySQL with your rpms.