How to install PHP 5.2.x on ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I want to run a version specific code on php 5.2.x which I have tried by many ways but not got any successful attempt.

Please let me know that how I can install PHP 5.2 on ubuntu 14.04

Solution

Install PHP 5.2.17 on Ubuntu 14.04

http://www.rasyid.net/2014/10/07/using-multiple-php-inside-one-ubuntu-machine/

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Add PostgreSQL Apt Repository (provides postgresql-server-dev-9.4)

apt-get install -y wget
echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Install dependencies

apt-get update
apt-get install -y gcc make build-essential \
    libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpcre3-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg-    dev \
    libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libt1-dev libmcrypt-dev libmhash-dev \
    freetds-dev libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev postgresql-server-dev-9.4 \
    libxslt1-dev

Required to prevent an issue when compiling freetype support

mkdir -pv /usr/include/freetype2/freetype
ln -sf /usr/include/freetype2/freetype.h /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h

Download PHP sources

wget -c -t 3 -O ./php-5.2.17.tar.gz http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.2.17.tar.gz
tar xvfz php-5.2.17.tar.gz
cd php-5.2.17

Patch PHP

wget -c -t 3 -O ./libxml29_compat.patch https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-August/txtbgxGXAvz4N.txt
patch -p0 -b < libxml29_compat.patch

wget -c -t 3 -O ./debian_patches_disable_SSLv2_for_openssl_1_0_0.patch https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php\?bug_id\=54736\&patch\=debian_patches_disable_SSLv2_for_openssl_1_0_0.patch\&revision=1305414559\&download\=1
patch -p1 -b < debian_patches_disable_SSLv2_for_openssl_1_0_0.patch

wget -c -t 3 -O - http://php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.diff.gz | gunzip > ./php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.patch
patch -p1 < php-5.2.17-fpm-0.5.14.patch

Compile and install

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/share/php52 \
    --datadir=/usr/share/php52 \
    --mandir=/usr/share/man \
    --bindir=/usr/bin/php52 \
    --with-libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
    --includedir=/usr/include \
    --with-config-file-path=$PHP_HOME/etc \
    --with-config-file-scan-dir=$PHP_HOME/etc/conf.d \
    --disable-debug \
    --with-regex=php \
    --disable-rpath \
    --disable-static \
    --disable-posix \
    --with-pic \
    --with-layout=GNU \
    --with-pear=/usr/share/php \
    --enable-calendar \
    --enable-sysvsem \
    --enable-sysvshm \
    --enable-sysvmsg \
    --enable-bcmath \
    --with-bz2 \
    --enable-ctype \
    --without-gdbm \
    --with-iconv \
    --enable-exif \
    --enable-ftp \
    --enable-cli \
    --with-gettext \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --with-pcre-regex \
    --enable-shmop \
    --enable-sockets \
    --enable-wddx \
    --enable-fastcgi \
    --enable-force-cgi-redirect \
    --enable-fpm \
    --with-mcrypt \
    --with-zlib \
    --enable-pdo \
    --with-curl \
    --enable-inline-optimization \
    --enable-xml \
    --enable-pcntl \
    --enable-mbregex \
    --with-mhash \
    --with-xsl \
    --enable-zip \
    --with-gd \
    --with-pdo-mysql \
    --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
    --with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
    --with-mysql \
    --with-openssl \
    --with-mysqli \
    --with-kerberos \
    --enable-dbase \
    --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf \
    --with-t1lib=/usr \
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
    --with-ldap \
    --with-kerberos=/usr \
    --with-unixODBC=shared,/usr \
    --with-imap-ssl \
    --with-mssql \
    --without-sqlite \
    --with-sqlite \
    --without-pdo-sqlite \
    --with-pgsql \
    --with-pdo-pgsql \
    --enable-soap \
    --with-pdo-sqlite

make
make install

Comments

[Faizan Akram Dar]

download all files from thejibe.com/blog/10/5/php-5210-debs-ubuntu-104-lucid and install them manually by sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb

[muru]

Suggestion: Use checkinstall instead of just make install.

[David Foerster]

Mixing Ubuntu releases is asking for pain. -1

[MiloTheGreat]

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