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This tutorial will explain how Downgrade PHP version from 5.4 to 5.3 in ubuntu 12.10.

Note:- Use this script with your own risk

Procedure to follow

First you need to download the shell script from here

Once you have php5_4_downgrade_5.3.sh file you need to change the permissions using the following command

sudo chmod 755 php5_4_downgrade_5.3.sh

Now you can run the script using the following command

sudo sh php5_4_downgrade_5.3.sh

Follow the on screen instructions

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13 Comments to “How to Downgrade PHP version from 5.4 to 5.3 in ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal)”

  1. Luca says:

    Thank a lot fro script!!! You save my life!!!!

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  2. Luis Lobo Borobia says:

    You have just saved my day!

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  3. burbing says:

    +1 thnx.

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  4. Franleplant says:

    Hi there! I needed Php 5.3 to get somethings working in my local computer, there are all about my current job, I search and tried a lot of solution but this one was the first and online to get the work done.

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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  5. GaxZE says:

    Awesome ! thanks

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  6. mohamed says:

    WoooooooW thats awesome !!!

    You really made it easy for me after hours of trials and searching !!

    Thank You A Million !

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  7. me says:

    Would be nice if you mentioned what the script does? Compile from source? Change sources.list?

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  8. Don Mostro says:

    This script broke some php dependencies, now i cant install php5-curl.

    the message:

    Depends: phpapi-20100525
    Depends: php5-common (=5.4.6-1ubuntu1.1) but 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 is to be installed

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    flashpassion Reply:

    in /etc/apt/preferences.d/php5_3

    just add follow :

    Package: php5-curl
    Pin: release a=precise
    Pin-Priority: 991

    Then:
    #apt-get update
    #apt-get install php5-curl

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  9. tashi tshering says:

    Just perfect script. Saved my day.

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  10. Bruno says:

    What if I need to upgrade to 5.4 after?

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  11. Michael says:

    How do I undo what this script did? I have ubuntu 12.10

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  12. Anuj says:

    Hi I am on 13.04 raring, and somehow updated to php5.4.9 now when i run this script it removes and installs the same version again.

    I want to downgrade to <5.4, any suggestion would be helpful.
    Thanks.

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