Install/Upgrade php-pdo --> for Drupal 7

[bskrakes]

Hi everyone!

So this morning I tried to upgrade one of my websites from Drupal 6.x to Drupal 7.x and I received the following error:

The wrong version of PDO is installed!

Drupal 7 requires the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension from PHP core to be enabled. This system has the older PECL version installed.

See the system requirements page for more information.

I just updated my system to Plesk 10.1.1, I am running on CentOS 5.x. Now I have read several different posts regarding Plesk and PHP... none are very clear!

So lets start with a few questions:
1) Does Parallels Plesk have a psa-php package (if not see next question)
2) If I run the following command:

yum install php-pdo
Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Updating:
php-pdo i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 65 k
Updating for dependencies:
php i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 2.3 M
php-cli i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 2.1 M
php-common i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 153 k
php-devel i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 503 k
php-gd i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 117 k
php-imap i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 54 k
php-ldap i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 37 k
php-mbstring i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 995 k
php-mysql i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 86 k
php-ncurses i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 42 k
php-odbc i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 53 k
php-pgsql i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 68 k
php-snmp i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 30 k
php-xml i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 97 k
php-xmlrpc i386 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 update 58 k

Transaction Summary
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Install 0 Package(s)
Upgrade 16 Package(s)

Total download size: 6.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

yum tells me that I need to update several other php dependencies, will this cause any problems? Once php has been updates should I restart the PSA system? If the PSA service doesn't want to restart can I roll back to the version of PHP I was using?

rpm -qa php
php-5.1.6-27.el5

3) There are some posts that say you can upgrade PHP and it will NOT affect Plesk, there are other posts that say otherwise - a little clarity would be nice
4) I have used atomic packages before and then when I have tried to update the Plesk system using the Plesk Auto-installer I get errors and cannot proceed unless I remove the package which I installed through Atomic
5) When it comes to the next Plesk update will running the php update cause Auto-installer problems? For example the Auto-installer will say something like: your system already has a newer version, install cannot continue."

Basically I want to get the php-pdo installed so that I can run Drupal 7 (I imagine other applications will soon be using this php module as well). I understand and appreciate that all of our Plesk systems may have different configurations but installing this module or updating PHP should be fairly straight forward if the ADMIN has a standard system config.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

 

[bskrakes]

Hi again,

So I have spent a lot of time searching the web and this is the best info I have found thus far (it doesn't even apply ):

Parallels Plesk KB: http://kb.odin.com/en/6670
Parallels Plesk Forums: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=89912

Neither apply to Linux/UNIX based Plesk 10.1.1... has anyone attempted to install the php-pdo package in Plesk? It looks like I am going to have to upgrade my version of PHP to a newer version... has anyone else done this can can you provide any advice?

Thanks,