Problem after udating to 3.7 (or 3.8)

  • I have several WordPress installs for testing on a localhost setup. I installed the components separately several years ago. It would take some work to go through and see what I need to do to update them without breaking anything. The versions of the components are:

    Apache 2.2
    PHP 5.2.11
    MySQL 5.0.88

    These are being run on Windows XP Pro SP3.

    I recently updated one of the installs to 3.7 and after doing so, if I try to update any themes or plugins I get an error that says something like this: The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature.

    For now I am just trying to get authoritative advice on whether the versions of the components I am running will work with 3.7 and 3.8.

    I tried updating another install to 3.8 which went fine, but when I tried to update the twentythirteen theme I got the same error message as above. NOTE: I just tried it again and the theme updated successfully.

    My main question is: What version of PHP is required for 3.7 and 3.8? Some people have said that 5.3 is required and some have said 5.2.5.

    I am nervous about updating my other installs until I find out what the latest version of PHP that they will work with.

    Thanks

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  • The official word:

    https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

    Thread Starter Mike D M

    (@mikedm)

    Thanks,

    I wasn’t sure that was for the very latest versions of WordPress or not.

    Does anyone know what this error would point to? The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature. I still get it if I try to update the install that I updated to 3.7 a month ago or so. I can’t update the version to 3.8 or update any themes or plugins or add any new ones to the installation. (I should note that I can add them manually. I haven’t tried updating WordPress manually)

    While I did have a hiccup with updating a theme on the install that I went from 3.6 to 3.8 on, it did do it successfully on the second try. It seems like I’m stuck on the other install since I can’t get anything to update on it.

    I am using this web server setup for other PHP work and am not having any problems with it other than recently with the two latest updates to WordPress.

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