Downgrade PHP 5.4 to 5.3 in Debian
Neither of the solutions above worked for me. What did work was pinning the necessary packages to the old stable such as
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.lst
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
Create
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences
And add the packages you need downgraded such as in my case
Package: php5*
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: libapache2-mod-php5
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: libapache2-mod-php5
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: php-pear
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600
Then run the commands
aptitude update
aptitude reinstall <necessary packages>
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you want to know which packages you need to upgrade just run :
dpkg -l|grep php|grep 5.4|awk '{print $2}'
You could try this, but do it at your own risk. I didn't try it myself. ;)
apt-get remove php5
- Download the PHP5 package from Stable
dpkg --force php5_5.3.3-7+squeeze8_all.deb
dpkg --set-selections PHP5 hold
The last line to prevent upgrading to 5.4. When you're ready for 5.4, run dpkg --set-selections PHP5 install
IonCube for 5.4 is a little while out from what I've read.