On 28/03/11 2:33 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > It has been 6 years since I set up my Linux server and have > hardly had to touch it in all of those years other than running > yum update, so I ma rusty in some of the fine details (especially > at 72). That's not old, I've been corresponding with a 78 year-old crypto freak on another mailing list. ;) > I located a source for the php-mcrypt rpm > (php-mcrypt-5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm), however, isn't there an > easier method to get and install the appropriate rpm - other than > downloading it then running rpm? And when should I use yum rather > than rpm? Use Yum whenever possible. One thing that is worth mentioning, though, is that php-mcrypt 5.1.x is a little old and a lot of things which require it (e.g. a CMS like WordPress) need 5.2 or above and higher versions of PHP. Fortunately these are all currently available in the CentOS Testing repository. This is where I grabbed my versions from to get WordPress to behave (i.e. recognise timezones). My /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos-Testing.repo file contains: [c5-testing] name=CentOS-5 Testing baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing priority=5 includepkgs=php* If you make this change you should also add "exclude=php*" to the end of the [base] and [updates] sections of the Centos-Base.repo file. Only include the "priority" line if you have that set in your other .repo files (everything in my Centos-Base.repo file has a priority of 1, except for [contrib] which has a priority of 2). There's a very good guide on how to do this properly here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PHP_5.1_To_5.2?highlight=%28php%29 I recommend following it because the chances are that your need for installing php-mcrypt in the first place is for something that needs at least version 5.2. Regards, Ben
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