Install yum and php-pear on Centos 5

Posted by Matteo Mattei ~ 15th May 2008

Virtual server like Aruba’s are configured with Centos without yum and without php-pear. Today I’ve done an assistance to a server of my customer that needed pear installation. It’s quite simple to make all work but I don’t understand why Aruba’s staff have not decided to include yum in their own default configuration server…

Shall we start installing yum:

mkdir /root/matteo && cd /root/matteo
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm
rpm rpm -Uvh readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
yum -y update

Now it’s time to install php-pear:

yum install php-pear*

Ok, in every virtual-host of Plesk (/var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/httpd.include), there is the directive open_basedir that must be configured in the right way adding the pear path:

php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/share/pear:/local/PEAR"

We must also configure pear in /etc/php.ini

include_path=".:/usr/share/pear:/local/PEAR/"

At the end you shall restart apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

7 Comments

  1. Paolo

    Ciao,
    ho seguito la tua guida ma alcuni pacchetti, essendosi aggiornati mi danno errore. Per la precisione yum richiede fastestmirror e fastestmirror richiede yum. nessuno dei due si installa… Come posso risolvere?

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  2. Francesco

    Ciao come a paolo ho seguito alla lettera il tuo procedimento ma python non si istalla richiede dipendenze…
    non si istalla yum che richiede fastestmirror
    ho aggiornato i link per wget ma ugualmente quanto scompatto con rpm mi da errore
    mi puoi aiutare? grazie

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    • Francesco

      Ciao per chiarezza il sistema è VPS ARUBA e la distro è centos 5
      Grazie

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      • Francesco

        il kernel è 2.6.9-023stab052.4-smp

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        • Francesco

          warning: popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
          error: Failed dependencies:
          libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by python-2.4.3-43.el5.i386
          python-libs-i386 = 2.4.3-43.el5 is needed by python-2.4.3-43.el5.i386
          m2crypto >= 0.16-5 is needed by python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5.noarch
          popt = 1.10.2 is needed by (installed) rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386
          libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by (installed) libsemanage-1.9.1-3.el5.i386
          libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by (installed) mod_python-3.2.8-3.1.i386
          /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by (installed) libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.el5_5.1.i386
          questi sono gli errori quando provo a istallare python con il comando
          rpm -Uvh py*rpm
          resto in attesa

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