William D Buchanan » Linux http://wdbuc.com Web Development | Web Design | Technology Consultant | PC Support Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 No GD Library For PHP By Default on CentOS 5 http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/12/30/no-gd-library-for-php-by-default-on-centos-5/ http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/12/30/no-gd-library-for-php-by-default-on-centos-5/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:24:22 +0000 William Buchanan http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/12/30/no-gd-library-for-php-by-default-on-centos-5/ I recently installed CentOS 5.3 version of Linux on a new testing server and started configuring all of the bells and whistles. I made some initial tweaks to Apache, MySQL, and PHP to set up my web server test environment. Everything seemed to be running smoothly until I happened to run an older PHP script I wrote to manipulate image files. The script resizes and renames image files in specified directories. Only one problem, the script was dying without a [...]]]> http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/12/30/no-gd-library-for-php-by-default-on-centos-5/feed/ 0 Need to Upgrade PHP on Fedora Core 4? http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/need-to-upgrade-php-on-fedora-core-4/ http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/need-to-upgrade-php-on-fedora-core-4/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:27:43 +0000 William Buchanan http://wdbuc.com/web-development/php/need-to-upgrade-php-on-fedora-core-4.html If you are still using the Fedora Core 4 (FC4) version of Linux you may have a need to upgrade your version of PHP. Unfortunately the Fedora Project hasn’t put out an update to PHP past version 5.0.4. There have been some functionality updates to PHP since then. The project I was working on at the time needed the functionality of SimpleXML (for handling XML responses; built into PHP 5.1.4 or higher).

The easiest way to upgrade PHP on Fedora, in [...]]]> http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/need-to-upgrade-php-on-fedora-core-4/feed/ 4 Problem Updating RPMs Using YUM http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/problem-updating-rpms-using-yum/ http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/problem-updating-rpms-using-yum/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:03:37 +0000 William Buchanan http://wdbuc.com/technology/linux/problem-updating-rpms-using-yum.html I was working on a Linux system that is running Fedora Core 4 and needed to install some updates to the system. I was using YUM because of the easy of use and how well it handles dependencies with rpms.

When trying to update the system I received the following error:

[root@yourlinuxbox ~]# yum -y update php Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released

The system was unable to find [...]]]> http://wdbuc.com/blog/2009/04/09/problem-updating-rpms-using-yum/feed/ 1