How to downgrade php 5.5 to 5.4 on Ubuntu 13

php5ubuntu-13.04

I'm using kubuntu 13.04
I've used a downgrade script to downgrade php 5.4 to 5.3 earlier, and now I deleted the repo and that script, removed php 5.3 and now when installing again, it's installing php 5.5 not 5.4.

How do I install php 5.4 not 5.5 ?

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Sorry i wanted to post this as a comment but dont have enough rep. Anyway i had to do the same and followed these steps, below is the following i did to go back to PHP 5.4

remove your php, apache, etc

sudo apt-get purge apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 # add here your server packages

change repositories to raring (with backup)

sudo sed -i.bak "s/saucy/raring/g" /etc/apt/sources.list

update and install server packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 phpmyadmin

change repositories back to saucy

sudo sed -i "s/raring/saucy/g" /etc/apt/sources.list

ignore all current upgrades (package hold)

sudo apt-mark hold `aptitude -F%p --disable-columns search ~U`

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Php – Downgrade PHP 5.4 to 5.3 in Debian

Neither of the solutions above worked for me. What did work was pinning the necessary packages to the old stable such as

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.lst

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

Create

/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences

And add the packages you need downgraded such as in my case

Package: php5*
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: libapache2-mod-php5    
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: libapache2-mod-php5
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: php-pear
Pin: release a=oldstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600

Then run the commands

aptitude update
aptitude reinstall <necessary packages>
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

If you want to know which packages you need to upgrade just run :

dpkg -l|grep php|grep 5.4|awk '{print $2}'

Php – Hide STRICT errors on PHP 5.4

In PHP 5.4 E_STRICT became part of E_ALL - (documentation). My recommendation would be to turn the directive to display errors to off, and to log errors instead, this would be done by setting the following in your php.ini:

display_errors = off
log_errors = on
error_log = /path/to/logs/php_error.log

If you do not want to go down this route and still wish to display errors and simply emulate the PHP <5.4 functionality you would be best off doing something like this:

error_reporting = E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE

It should also be mentioned that various people have reported the inability to exclude E_STRICT from E_ALL in such a way as you have tried as a bug, so this might change in a later release to allow for the functionality you are used to.

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