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I am currently running PHP 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.1 (cli) (built: Nov 15 2012 01:18:34) on xubuntu . I would like to update to latest version or >= 5.4.7. Is there another way to do instead of making it from source? If source is the only solution can you please guide me how to do it painless.

Update: I did this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/431805/upgrading-php-from-php-5-3-to-5-4-7 and http://wiki.helioviewer.org/wiki/Compiling_PHP_from_source_on_Ubuntu

Now from the CLI it shows 5.4.12 but from Apache it is still 5.4.6. Any ideas how to make Apache use the new installation of PHP?

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Ondřej Surý, one of the Debian PHP maintainers, maintains a PPA with newer PHP versions for easy installation on Ubuntu. Instructions are on the PPA page itself: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5

Note that this is an "untrusted" source since Ondřej's PPA isn't part of Ubuntu. But you may choose to trust him because he's a Debian PHP maintainer so his work on PHP ends up in official Ubuntu releases anyway.

This will update the main system installation of PHP, rather than one in /usr/local. So you won't have to repoint anything in Apache to use the updated version.

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  • I have added the PPA to my system as described for Quantal 12.10 bu t it complains when I try to do apt-get update with the following message:

    W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4F4EA0AAE5267A6C

     – painkiller Mar 12 '13 at 11:39