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

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

Introduction

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

What is `php-mysqlnd.x86_64`

The php-mysqlnd 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. This package use the MySQL Native Driver

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

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

sudo yum -y install php-mysqlnd.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-mysqlnd.x86_64

php-mysqlnd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/mysqlnd.ini
/etc/php.d/mysqlnd_mysql.ini
/etc/php.d/mysqlnd_mysqli.ini
/etc/php.d/pdo_mysqlnd.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqlnd.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqlnd_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqlnd_mysqli.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_mysqlnd.so

References

php-mysqlnd.x86_64 website

Summary

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