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How to downgrade from PHP5 to PHP4

Asked by dutch7773 in PHP Installation, PHP Scripting Language, Fedora Linux

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Hi,

I am currently running Fedora Core 8 which comes with PHP5. The application I have is written for PHP4 and generates a lot of errors on PHP5, mainly because of variables not defined. The company who wrote the application will not change it without some major compensation. I tried to setup PHP5 to run ignoring the errors, or to run in PHP4 compat mode, but to no avail. It seems like I have to go back to PHP4 to make this work.

Here is what I did so far:

I downloaded the packages:
   compat-db-4.2.52-2.FC4.i386.rpm  
   php-mbstring-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm
   openssl-0.9.7a-42.2.i386.rpm    
   php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm
   php-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm          
   php-ncurses-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm
   php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm    
   php-pear-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm

When I run rpm -ivh php-*.rpm I get the following messages:
error: Failed dependencies:
        httpd-mmn = 20020903 is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libcrypto.so.4 is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libcurl.so.3 is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libdb-4.2.so is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libexpat.so.0 is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libssl.so.4 is needed by php-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        autoconf is needed by php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        automake is needed by php-devel-4.3.11-2.8.i386
        libmysqlclient.so.10 is needed by php-mysql-4.3.11-2.8.i386

I checked for these packages on fedora's web site but my guess is that they are in other packages of which I don't have the name. Also, I'm afraid to break other stuff when I start to download and install older versions of these packages.

Current version of Linux 2.6.24.4-64.fc8

thanks!
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Tags: php4, fedora core 8
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