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

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mbstring.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-mbstring.x86_64 is A module for PHP applications which need multi-byte string

Introduction

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

What is `php-mbstring.x86_64`

The php-mbstring package contains a dynamic shared object that will add support for multi-byte string handling to PHP.

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

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

sudo yum -y install php-mbstring.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-mbstring.x86_64

php-mbstring.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/mbstring.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mbstring.so
/usr/share/doc/php-mbstring-5.4.16
/usr/share/doc/php-mbstring-5.4.16/libmbfl_LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/php-mbstring-5.4.16/oniguruma_COPYING
/usr/share/doc/php-mbstring-5.4.16/ucgendat_LICENSE

References

php-mbstring.x86_64 website

Summary

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