Solution: Aptitude is very smart and fixed the issues it was because of nvidia cuda and opencl and nothing else suggested or hinted this using apt sudo aptitude install wine The following NEW packages will be installed: ocl-icd-libopencl1{ab} ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386{ab} wine wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64{a} wine1.6-i386:i386{a} The following packages will be REMOVED:........

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib64/php/modules/fileinfo.so conflicts between attempted installs of php-pecl-fileinfo-1.0.4-2.el6.rf.x86_64 and php-common-5.3.3-49.el6.x86_64 solution you can't install php-pecl-fileinfo it seems to be incompatble with the php5.3 being installed: yum --exclude=php-pecl-fileinfo --skip-broken --disablerepo=epel install php-*........

Error: Package: php-Monolog-dynamo-1.7.0-1.el6.noarch (epel) Requires: php-aws-sdk Error: php-pecl-zendopcache conflicts with 1:php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-1.el6.x86_64 Error: php-xcache conflicts with php-pecl-apc-3.1.9-2.el6.x86_64 Error: php-pecl-zendopcache conflicts with php-pecl-apc-3.1.9-2.el6.x86_64 Error: Package: php-horde-Horde-Vfs-2.1.2-2.el6.noarch (epel) &n........

It's not as simple as "yum install" as you can see below and it doesn't stop there. yum install php53 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * extras: centos.mirror.rafal.ca * updates: centos.mirror.nexicom.net * base: centos.mirror.nexicom.net * addons: centos.mirror.nexicom.net Setting up Install Process........

This may sound silly but there will be conflicts/issues with the default Centos repository so you have to use a third party like remi (I prefer not to do this but it's the only option unless you migrate your sites/data to another server or can stand some downtime-not an option IMHOon a production server). You may need to upgrade to PHP5.3 to run Joomla or many other reasons. Your host needs to use PHP 5.2.4 or higher to run this version of Jo........