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I really like the new features in PHP5, many great web applications already support it, but there are times when you need good ol’ PHP4.

I needed to setup a CRM application, VTiger, which doesn’t run in PHP5 yet, and had to get PHP4 in my server.

Fedora Core 4 comes with PHP5 pre-installed and getting back to PHP4 can get a little messy, fortunately there are several solutions.

I found these links very helpful and now I’m running Fedora Core 4 with PHP4: PHP4 on Fedora 4 and PHP4 and Postgresql 8.

My library dependency problems happened with Postgresql: “libpq.so.3 is needed by php-pgsql-4.3.11-2.8.i386″, but you could have a different setup and need to yum or rpm other packages.

I got all php4 related packages from Fedora’s server, except php-snmp-4.3.11-2.8.i386.rpm, I had a dependency problem there and didn’t want to mess with SNMP.

I hope this helps you.