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

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pdo.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-pdo.x86_64 is A database access abstraction module for PHP applications

Introduction

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

What is `php-pdo.x86_64`

The php-pdo package contains a dynamic shared object that will add a database access abstraction layer to PHP. This module provides a common interface for accessing MySQL, PostgreSQL or other databases.

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

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

sudo yum -y install php-pdo.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-pdo.x86_64

php-pdo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/pdo.ini
/etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini
/etc/php.d/sqlite3.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlite.so
/usr/lib64/php/modules/sqlite3.so

References

php-pdo.x86_64 website

Summary

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