How To Install php-snmp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-snmp on Rocky Linux 8. php-snmp is A module for PHP applications that query SNMP-managed devices

Introduction

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

What is `php-snmp`

The php-snmp package contains a dynamic shared object that will add support for querying SNMP devices to PHP. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need SNMP support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package.

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

Install php-snmp 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-snmp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-snmp

Install php-snmp 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-snmp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-snmp

How To Uninstall php-snmp on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove php-snmp

php-snmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/php.d/20-snmp.ini
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/1b62f2587593f838b9951b982258836a12600a
/usr/lib64/php/modules/snmp.so

References

php-snmp website

Summary

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