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i am working on a ubuntu 12.04 server edition as a virtual machine. Basically, I want to upgrade the PHP version to the freshly released 5.3.19, but obviously I have absolutely no clue on how to do it.

Using apt-get install php5-cli etc. did not work, since it still gets me 5.3.19.

So, after having quite a look at google.com, i could not find anything helping me out. So I went to linuxquestions.org and asked ppl there, noone answered. So here are all my hopes, please help!!

If you have any explanations for me, please give them newbie-style. i am a newbie.

lukas
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You don't want to upgrade to the latest release versions upstream. There's a reason for sticking with the ones in the stable, -updates and -security software channels of the repositories.

The version 5.3.10 in Precise is updated for security fixes and bugs. See the package changelog:

php5 (5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4) precise-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE: [...]

 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:28:52 -0400

See als this question: "Why don't the Ubuntu repositories have the latest versions of software?"

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