Steps to install php mysql on centos 6.8

Question

I have a server with centos 6.8 I am trying to install

1. php 5.5.
2. mysql 5.5
3. php-mbstring

But it shows error message as: Error: php55w-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64

Please tell me step by step guide to install.

Answer 1

to remove the previous install

yum remove php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64

this was suggested on another forum:

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm

you can install php5.5 using

yum install php55w php55w-opcache

or upgrade your existing installation using

yum install yum-plugin-replace

yum replace php-common --replace-with=php55w-common

package name for mbstring is php55w-mbstring

the package name for mysql is php55w-mssql

information for centos was aquired from

https://webtatic.com/packages/php55/

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information for linux debian/ubuntu based below

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for if you do not have it, you can install the ondrej PPA

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5

or the general php ppa

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

if this gives an error for UTF 8 localization you can use

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5

or

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

then uninstall the previous php installation

sudo apt purge php-common-5.3.3-48.el6_8.x86_64

and update your ppa lists with

sudo apt update

right after if this all went correctly you should be able to use

sudo apt-get install php(version of choice) mysql(version of choice) php-mbstring