php-ncurses cannot recognize the already installed php-common

Question

I am trying to update my php version from 5.1.6 to 5.3.10 at Centos 5.4

I am trying to install the following rpm(i cannot yum or anything like that).

rpm -ivh php-ncurses-5.2.12-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:     
php-common = 5.2.12-1 is needed by php-ncurses-5.2.12-1.i386

but i have install the php-common-5.3.10-1.el5.i386.rpm.

i have tried also other versions of ncurses for el5 but the same error occured

Answer 1

I'm not CentOS user (Archlinux here), but the general rule of updating php on Linux system is - you must have same version of php and plugins/extensions to make it work.

Afaik you are trying to update php to version 5.3.3, (and yet you've just install php-common in 5.3.10), staying with php-ncurses 5.2.12. I don't think that's going to work on any system. As you can see php-ncurses-5.2.12 needs php-common in specific version (5.2.12 as well).

I'm almost sure that you should find backports of php-ncurses and php-common in 5.3.X version (same version for all the packages!) and then install it all together. If it's for some reason not possible, and if I were you I would probably remove php-ncurses , install php-5.3.X with php-common-5.3.X , then download and compile php-ncurses from source [1] (there is another version naming scheme though).

I know nothing about machine you are working on, but if it's production machine you should probably do some tests on mirror machine/system first to make sure you will not break anything.