These are compatible Repositories: FreshRPMS, Dries, NewRPMS and PlanetCCRMA
 
Note: to update PHP and MySQL, you must use the “Remi” repository. Repos protection must be disabled prior to that install.
 
yum install yum-priorities
vim /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf
—-
[main]
enabled=1
—-
 
Install RPMForge:
cd /home
wget
rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt  //install DAG’s GPG key
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm //verify package
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm //install
 
Epel (conflict with RPMForge!)
su -c ‘rpm -Uvh ‘
su -c ‘yum install foo’
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
enabled=1
Add priority=3
 
How to remove Epel:
rpm -e epel-release-5-3.noarch
rm -y /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
rm -y /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
 
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Les RPMS de Remi (to update PHP)
wget
wget
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
vim -y /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
enable=1
priority=3
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//Create DAG repository definition (optional)
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
—-
[dag]
name=Dag
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
priority=3
—-
rpm –import
 
Setting priorities:
—-
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
dir  //to find .repo files
vim rpmforge.repo    //set priority to 3 or higher
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
—-
priority=N //where N=1 to 99
—-
—- Recommended settings —-
[base], [addons], [updates], [extras] … priority=1
[centosplus],[contrib] … priority=2
Third Party Repos such as rpmforge … priority=N  (where N is > 10 and based on your preference)
—-
 
yum check-update
 
============================== How to upgrade PHP and mySQL to the latest versions ======================
cd /home
wget
wget
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
yum remove mysql.i386
yum –enablerepo=remi update mysql*
yum –enablerepo=remi update php*
yum –enablerepo=remi update
yum update
 
Note as of 10/07/09, the PHP version with this method is 5.3.0, which is not compatible with current release of IONCUBE
 
============================== How to update PHP to version 5.2.11 ======================
https://oldblog.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/
 
yum remove php php-devel php-common php-cli
rpm –import
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/utterramblings.repo
— Add this —
[utterramblings]
name=Jason’s Utter Ramblings Repo
baseurl=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/RPM-GPG-KEY-jlitka
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yum install php php-devel php-gd php-ldap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-odbc php-pdo php-common php-cli phpmyadmin
 
============================== How to install FFMPEG ==============================
yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel flvtool2 mplayer mencoder gd gd-devel php-gd php-devel ImageMagick phpmyadmin
  //after having Dag/rpmforge installed
 
Install ffmpeg-php (check for latest)
# wget
Extract the archive:
# tar -xjf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2
# cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/
# phpize
# ./configure && make
# sudo make install
# vim /etc/php.ini
—- add this line at the end of file—-
[ffmpeg]
extension=ffmpeg.so
—-
# service httpd restart
 
check ffmpeg-php status
# php -m | grep ffmpeg
 
Create a hard link to enable ffmpeg-php working
ln /usr/lib64/php/modules/ffmpeg.so /usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so
ln -s /usr/lib64/php/modules/ /usr/lib/php/modules/
 
============================== FFMPEG Install problems =====================================
yum install httpd gnome-user-share mod_perl mod_python mod_ssl php php-devel phpmyadmin system-config-httpd webalizer php-cli php-common php-eaccelerator php-gd php-ldap php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-odbc php-pdo
 
yum remove ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel
 
yum remove x264 ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel mencoder mplayer x264-devel ffmpeg-libpostproc
 
ln /usr/lib64/php/modules/ffmpeg.so /usr/lib/php/modules/ffmpeg.so
============================== How to install eaccelerator ==============================
 
# yum install php-eaccelerator