How can I upgrade PHP version on BBB?

[Guren_Wolf]

Hello Beaglebone community.

To begin with, I am using a beaglebone black with a Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy) distro.

Lately, I have been playing around with my BBB to create a web server on it. I already installed all the programs required in order to do this, however, the application I'm working with requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher and the PHP version downloaded with apt-get is 5.4.45-0+deb7u6.

So, the question is: Is there a way to upgrade the PHP version to 5.5.9 or higher on the BBB, and if so, how is it done?

I would appreciate any help tremendously.

[Robert Nelson]

Debian Jessie ships with 5.6.29

So, either upgrade to Debian Jessie, or build php5 on your own from source.

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

[Guren_Wolf]

Thank you so much for the help.