ES Ver 3 and php 5 ?

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:34:57 +1100
>From: "Greg Wiggill" <gregw at pronto.com.au>  
>
>Our Intranet application sits on Red Hat ES Ver 3 and now requires PHP
>5.1.6 (currently PHP 4.4)
>
>Would running up2date guarantee that we pull down the latest ? Is there
>another way to go about it ? Looked to be a great deal of dependencies!

Does it require java?

     mark