How To Install php-pecl-apcu on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pecl-apcu on Rocky Linux 8. php-pecl-apcu is APC User Cache

Introduction

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

What is `php-pecl-apcu`

APCu is userland caching APCu only supports userland caching of variables. The php-pecl-apcu-bc package provides a drop in replacement for APC.

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

Install php-pecl-apcu 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-pecl-apcu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-pecl-apcu

Install php-pecl-apcu 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-pecl-apcu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-pecl-apcu

How To Uninstall php-pecl-apcu on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove php-pecl-apcu

php-pecl-apcu Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/php.d/40-apcu.ini
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/db917f456d15c892e37eb28a13463bc15a2915
/usr/lib64/php/modules/apcu.so
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu/README.md
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu/TECHNOTES.txt
/usr/share/doc/pecl/apcu/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/php-pecl-apcu
/usr/share/licenses/php-pecl-apcu/LICENSE
/var/lib/php/peclxml/php-pecl-apcu.xml

References

php-pecl-apcu website

Summary

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