Need to downgrade PHP 5.3 on F12

[jflesher]

PHP 5.3 is nice to have available, but its crashing my Joomla 1.5.x site on my Development machine (no chance of Joomla fixing it any time soon, its not ready for 5.3, maybe 1.6.x when its ready), I need to downgrade to 5.2; but when I do a yum list php, it only shows 5.3, so yum downgrade php fails.

Is it possible to have you make 5.2 available for downgrade, or is it a mater of having a repo enabled just to downgrade, if so what repo?

[marvin_ita]

I think you have to install a plugin for yum to allow downgrade packages

yum install yum-plugin-allowdowngrade

never tried, but I think after that a "yum list php" should show you the older versions.

[jflesher]

yum-plugin-allowdowngrade has been integrated into yum for many versions of Fedora now.

All I see is 5.3, I wouldn't have asked if I seen 5.2; the "yum downgrade php" seems to fail due to nothing to downgrade too.

[alexthegreat]

this link helped me a lot:

http://mirror.alva.ge/pub/other/php5.2fc12/

it contains all the packages needed. and i have installed them on Fedora 14 without any problem or any dependencies.

just delete your PHP 5.3 and install these ones one by one (it will tell you, if you're in wrong order).

wow! enjoy!