Comments on: How to upgrade PHP in Ubuntu

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:48:01 +0000

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Luke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:38:41 +0000

Yeah, just:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and delete the extra sources that you added, then save it, then update your sources:

sudo apt-get update

Then reinstall php, and restart Apache…

sudo apt-get install php5-cli
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Joe Kwon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:26:27 +0000

Thanks for this info. Unfortunately it broke something for me. Do you know how to reverse this procedure so I can go back to PHP 5.2.10 Ubuntu?

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:47:59 +0000

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