How To Install php-odbc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-odbc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is php-odbc.x86_64
The php-odbc package contains a dynamic shared object that will add database support through ODBC to PHP. ODBC is an open specification which provides a consistent API for developers to use for accessing data sources (which are often, but not always, databases). PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need ODBC support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package.
We can use yum to install php-odbc.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-odbc.x86_64.
Install php-odbc.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-odbc.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install php-odbc.x86_64
How To Uninstall php-odbc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the php-odbc.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove php-odbc.x86_64
php-odbc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/php.d/odbc.ini
/etc/php.d/pdo_odbc.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/odbc.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_odbc.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php-odbc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.