Web Hosting Reseller Hosting

How do I upgrade CPanel, PHP, and MySQL, as well as install Python on a Linux server?

My friend is leasing his own server for the first time, and he has given me a reseller account. I would like to run a web host off of my reseller account, but the server does not have the latest version of CPanel, PHP, or MySQL, nor does it have Python installed. I do not have admin access to the server, but my friend does. He told me that he would upgrade all of these things for me if I could find out how. So here I am! If somebody could provide some kind of instructions...is it done through WHM?

Public Comments

1. Tell him he can perform the updates and installs from his WHM interface. Visit Cpanel.net for the manual.
2. There's a bunch of articles on this. Look for any "cookbook" on LAMP (Linux + Apache + Mysql + (Perl | PHP | etc).