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