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

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-snmp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. php-snmp.x86_64 is A module for PHP applications that query SNMP-managed devices

Introduction

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

What is php-snmp.x86_64

The php-snmp package contains a dynamic shared object that will add support for querying SNMP devices to PHP. PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. If you need SNMP support for PHP applications, you will need to install this package and the php package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install php-snmp.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove php-snmp.x86_64

php-snmp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/snmp.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/snmp.so

References

Summary

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