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

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-mysql.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-mysql.x86_64 is A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases

Introduction

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

What is `php-mysql.x86_64`

The php-mysql package contains a dynamic shared object that will add MySQL database support to PHP. MySQL is an object-relational database management system. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need MySQL support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install php-mysql.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-mysql.x86_64

php-mysql.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/mysql.ini
/etc/php.d/mysqli.ini
/etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysql.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqli.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_mysql.so

References

php-mysql.x86_64 website

Summary

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