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

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-embedded.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-embedded.x86_64 is PHP library for embedding in applications

Introduction

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

What is `php-embedded.x86_64`

The php-embedded package contains a library which can be embedded into applications to provide PHP scripting language support.

We can use yum to install php-embedded.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-embedded.x86_64.

Install php-embedded.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-embedded.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-embedded.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-embedded.x86_64

php-embedded.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libphp5-5.4.so
/usr/lib64/libphp5.so

References

php-embedded.x86_64 website

Summary

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