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Re: [Solved] Older version of php

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:17:14 +0000

Devuan jessie has 5.6.36+dfsg-0+deb8u1, in jessie-security, so you might be able to install from there.

Re: [Solved] Older version of php

dummy@example.com (UnclePa) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:15:11 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Can't switch to something new yet. We have hundreds of mysql calls that are deprecated and converting them to PDO is a pretty low priority (not to mention horribly boring). I wasn't able to compile without downgrading openssl (I think that's the one) which I didn't want to do so ended up following the directions at https://packages.sury.org/php. It seems to be working fine. Thanks again.

Re: [Solved] Older version of php

dummy@example.com (devuser) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:11:50 +0000

Might be better to switch to something newer as 5.6 will EOL in about 5 months. As for adding repos it depends and giving a general opinion is pretty much impossible. What repo would you want to add? Cleanest option would probably be to build your own packages though.

[Solved] Older version of php

dummy@example.com (UnclePa) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:08:28 +0000

I just installed Devuan last week so this is a newbie question. I need to run an older version of php (5.6 specifically). It doesn't show up in synaptic. I want to stay clear of systemd. Can I safely add a Debian repository to get the binary package or should I compile it from source?