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[Jeffrey Ness <jeffrey.ness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nat,

This is great news! I'm very glad to were able to get everything working.

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Jeffrey Ness
Linux System Engineer
IT Operations [Development]
Rackspace Hosting & IUS Community

On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Nat Colley wrote:

> Thanks. I think I have it working now. On to the next adventure (hopefully with fewer issues).
> 
> From: Ilya A. Otyutskiy <sharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Nat Colley <nat.colley@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ius-community] yum-plugin-replace
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Nat Colley <nat.colley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sharp, you got me halfway there. Yes, I was typing it in exactly as I saw
> > it, and that included the #. (Obviously I'm new at all of this). Taking that
> > off gives me output, but i still can't run the rpm command as you can see:
> 
> Hello Nat.
> 
> For future reference, the command after hash (#) sign means that you
> need to run it as privileged (root) user and the command after dollar
> ($) sign means that you need to run it as unprivileged (e.g. you)
> user. You don't need to type this character to your command prompt. In
> bash (which you are using as a shell) the hash sign means comment,
> that's why your previous attempts failed. FYI, variables are prefixed
> with the dollar sign.
> 
> Try to do this:
> 
> # rpm -iUvh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/ius-release-1-2.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
> 
> The above command will install the ius-release package and will
> configure your system to use IUS.
> 
> After that run this:
> 
> # yum install epel-release
> 
> Answer 'y' to yum's query about installation and 'y' on the question
> about GPG-key.
> 
> That command will configure your system to use EPEL via installing
> epel-release package. IUS has that package inside.
> 
> After that you can upgrade your MySQL/PHP (or what you wanted to do
> originally) just using `yum install what-do-you-need' commands.
> 
> -- 
> SY, Ilya A. Otyutskiy aka Sharp
> 
> 
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