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[Andy Macdonald]

Andrew,

What I would do (probably not optimal):

1) Get someone to provide newer hardware!
2) Install Fedora (free version of RedHat)
3) Install PHP 4.3

Are you running PHP with Apache web server? If so watch the 'global register variables' problem that crops up when upgrading from older versions of PHP - see:
http://uk.php.net/register_globals
http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?t=2151

All the best,

Andy

On Mon, 05 Apr, Andrew Teal wrote:
> Hello, a bit of advice, please.
>
> Having run an i386 machine with RedHat and various applications for a while, and keeping it up to date successfully (I believe) with their free single user system, I was aware that this was going to
> become unavailable but insufficiently motivated to do anything about it.
>
> Now I particularly need PHP4.3 and I'm back on rpm dependency problems.
>
> So, what's my best way round the problem? Find my way round (what seems a rather peculiar) dependancy maze, subscribe to Redhat, or change to another system? And would that be a complete change, or would
> there be sufficient compatibility to enable an update only change?
>
> My instinct is to bite the bullet and subscribe, but I'd like more experienced views!
>
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