How To Install php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-cli.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-cli.x86_64 is Command-line interface for PHP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `php-cli.x86_64`

The php-cli package contains the command-line interface executing PHP scripts, /usr/bin/php, and the CGI interface.

We can use yum to install php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php-cli.x86_64.

Install php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install php-cli.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-cli.x86_64

How To Uninstall php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the php-cli.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove php-cli.x86_64

php-cli.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/phar
/usr/bin/phar.phar
/usr/bin/php
/usr/bin/php-cgi
/usr/bin/phpize
/usr/share/doc/php-cli-5.4.16
/usr/share/doc/php-cli-5.4.16/README
/usr/share/doc/php-cli-5.4.16/README.FastCGI
/usr/share/man/man1/phar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/phar.phar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/php-cgi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/phpize.1.gz

References

php-cli.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-cli.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.