I just upgraded PHP to V5.4 on my laptop, using the technique described in this answer, How do I install different (upgrade or downgrade) PHP version in still supported Ubuntu release?.
I did the same for my desktop a while back and it all worked fine. On my laptop however the old version (5.3.10) is still showing at the CLI (php -v) and the SAPI (phpinfo()). why is it so?
Presumably there is a config file (or two) that needs updating?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
EDIT: output of dpkg -l '*php5*' as requested: (sorry about the formatting)
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libapache2-mod 5.3.10-1ubuntu server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag
un libapache2-mod <none> (no description available)
ii php5 5.3.10-1ubuntu server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag
un php5-cgi <none> (no description available)
ii php5-cli 5.3.10-1ubuntu command-line interpreter for the php5 script
ii php5-common 5.3.10-1ubuntu Common files for packages built from the php
ii php5-curl 5.3.10-1ubuntu CURL module for php5
ii php5-dev 5.3.10-1ubuntu Files for PHP5 module development
un php5-fpm <none> (no description available)
ii php5-gd 5.3.10-1ubuntu GD module for php5
ii php5-gmp 5.3.10-1ubuntu GMP module for php5
un php5-idn <none> (no description available)
un php5-imap <none> (no description available)
ii php5-intl 5.3.10-1ubuntu internationalisation module for php5
un php5-json <none> (no description available)
un php5-ldap <none> (no description available)
ii php5-mcrypt 5.3.5-0ubuntu1 MCrypt module for php5
un php5-mhash <none> (no description available)
ii php5-mysql 5.3.10-1ubuntu MySQL module for php5
un php5-mysqli <none> (no description available)
un php5-mysqlnd <none> (no description available)
un php5-pgsql <none> (no description available)
un php5-sqlite <none> (no description available)
un php5-sqlite3 <none> (no description available)
un php5-suhosin <none> (no description available)
ii php5-xdebug 2.1.0-1 Xdebug Module for PHP 5
ii php5-xmlrpc 5.3.10-1ubuntu XML-RPC module for php5
ii php5-xsl 5.3.10-1ubuntu XSL module for php5
ANOTHER EDIT: Problem solved
Hi, Ubuntu suddenly decided it had numerous other updates to apply, including a kernel upgrade, so I let that happen and we now have v 5.4! (The CLI is saying it can't load xdebug, but I've seen this before and should be able to sort it out. If I can't I'll raise another question).
