Sticky Minimum required version is MySQL 5.1, but it is highly recommended to use MySQL 5.5 or later

G'day, catalintel, and welcome to Kunena.

You need MySQL 5.1, or higher, to run K 3.0. this is something you need to discuss with your webhosting provider. Please browse earlier posts in this topic where a similar question to yours was asked.

I just tried to update to Kunena 3.0.

I run Joomla Joomla 2.5.24 and updated from Kunena 1.7.2
I used the 3.0 Upgrade guide and also made sure to implement properly the SEO.

But when trying to upgrade got the error message: PHP 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0 is not supported. Minimum required version is PHP 5.3.1, but it is higly recommended to use PHP 5.4.23 or later.

Problem is, my hoster IS running on PHP 5.4 (and that is all they said about it, it's my problem)

Somehow Joomla or Kunena is not recognizing this. Any ideas what I can do?

the min req are ;
PHP: version 5.3.1 or greater (>= 5.4.14 recommended)
MySQL: version 5.1 or greater (>= 5.5 recommended)

So you have php 5.4.23 that's good.

But the installer said tht you have php 5.2.17.

You need to look what joomla says. Go to system - system information - there you will see PHP Version.

What is joomla saying?

Problem nearly solved....

after contacting the support again I got a friendlier tech informing me that the upgrade was not automatical and that I needed to manually put it that I wanted php 5.......

I now managed to install the package but another problem came up..... I have a look if I find the answer here and if not will post in a new thread.

Thank you.