Updating PHP on Ubunto via Plesk 8.6

Sorry, my host said the version was 5.0.10 but i have just pulled this up into the browser from within plesk - it looks like the version is ok??

NameValuePHP_VERSION5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6HTTP_HOST
HTTP_USER_AGENT
HTTP_ACCEPT
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGEen-gb,en;q=0.5HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODINGgzip,deflateHTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSETISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE300HTTP_CONNECTIONkeep-aliveHTTP_REFERER
HTTP_COOKIEvzcpSession=14cc4a4ccd30t7769d9c9;vzcpTicket=14cc4a4ccd30t7769d9c9; vzcpLang=en; frameset_url=;psaContext=domains; vzcpRefreshPeriod=; vzcpTimeZone=; vzcpSkin=silver;phpMyAdmin=14cc4a4ccd30t7769d9c9REQUEST_METHODGETREQUEST_URI/test/php/test.phpREQUEST_TIME1246557019

<td>PHP_VERSION</td><td>5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6</td>

To see which version are you running, open a terminal and type

php5 -v

OK, so now we have determined the version - how would I initiate an upgrade?

That is the current version of php5 into ubuntu 9.04 server. I don't suggest you to manually install a newer version over it.

Which version of ubuntu are you running?

Ubuntu 8.04

So, if your version is:

PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2

it is the latest version available in ubuntu 8.04

Your first question was: how do I upgrade to PHP 5.2?
You have it.

Thanx, i want to be able to get an answer to the question otherwise it seems pointless?

Additionally, how can I modify php.ini?

I have answered your question..

Question: how can I upgrade to php 5.2
Answer: I have guided you to detect that you already have php 5.2.

I don't understand what else you need.

I understand what your saying but If someone else searched for an answer to this question they would get it - I take it the set of commands required to run the process is complex?

And regardless, i think i answered it in my first and second replies to this thread. I wanted to give you the chance of completing the question for the points allocation thats all.

Typo:

* they wouldn't get it

Thank you