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

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-php.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rrdtool-php.x86_64 is PHP RRDtool bindings

Introduction

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

What is `rrdtool-php.x86_64`

The rrdtool-php package includes a dynamic shared object (DSO) that adds RRDtool bindings to the PHP HTML-embedded scripting language.

We can use yum to install rrdtool-php.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rrdtool-php.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install rrdtool-php.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove rrdtool-php.x86_64

rrdtool-php.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/php.d/rrdtool.ini
/usr/lib64/php/modules/rrdtool.so
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/README
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples/rrd_create.php
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples/rrd_fetch.php
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples/rrd_graph.php
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples/rrd_last.php
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-php-1.4.8/examples/rrd_update.php

References

rrdtool-php.x86_64 website

Summary

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