How To Install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8. php-mysqlnd is A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8.

What is php-mysqlnd

The php-mysqlnd package contains a dynamic shared object that will add MySQL database support to PHP. MySQL is an object-relational database management system. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need MySQL support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package. This package use the MySQL Native Driver

We can use yum or dnf to install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php-mysqlnd.

Install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install php-mysqlnd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-mysqlnd

Install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install php-mysqlnd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-mysqlnd

How To Uninstall php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the php-mysqlnd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove php-mysqlnd

php-mysqlnd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/php.d/20-mysqlnd.ini
/etc/php.d/30-mysqli.ini
/etc/php.d/30-pdo_mysql.ini
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/82e2e768011019f4210d77d427942b6a887361
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/25c006aa8851f6f3bb6e886da6de40dbed25e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/fbe0fdb959d9ae1cb336ad402abfd2cf0dc84b
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqli.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqlnd.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_mysql.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mysqlnd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.