Upgrading PHP on CentOS 6.5 (Final)

As Jacob mentioned, the CentOS packages repo appears to only have PHP 5.3 available at the moment. But these commands seemed to work for me… rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm yum remove php-common # Need to remove this, otherwise it conflicts yum install php56w yum install php56w-mysql yum install php56w-common yum install php56w-pdo yum install php56w-opcache php … Read more

Upgrade python without breaking yum

I have written a quick guide on how to install the latest versions of Python 2 and Python 3 on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7. It currently covers Python 2.7.13 and Python 3.6.0: # Start by making sure your system is up-to-date: yum update # Compilers and related tools: yum groupinstall -y “development tools” # … Read more

How to configure system to use the FIWARE yum repository?

You need to add a file fiware.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following lines: [fiware] name=Fiware Repository baseurl=http://repositories.lab.fiware.org/repo/rpm/$releasever gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 I hope it helps you. EDIT: originally, baseurl were http://repositories.lab.fiware.org/repo/rpm/x86_64/. That is still working, but the correct one since April 2016 uses $releasever. In addition, /x86_64 has been removed. EDIT: originally, the name was repositories.testbed.fiware.org but … Read more

How to enable mysqlnd for php?

The ./configure command is part of the compilation process from source code. You can either compile from source or install via package manager. I guess in your case the package manager is preferable. As the package manager complains, you can’t have both php-mysql and php-mysqlnd installed. So you can yum remove php-mysql before yum install … Read more

How to install latest version of git on CentOS 8.x/7.x/6.x

You can use WANDisco’s CentOS repository to install Git 2.x: for CentOS 6, for CentOS 7 Install WANDisco repo package: yum install http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/6/git/x86_64/wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm – or – yum install http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/git/x86_64/wandisco-git-release-7-1.noarch.rpm – or – yum install http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/git/x86_64/wandisco-git-release-7-2.noarch.rpm Install the latest version of Git 2.x: yum install git Verify the version of Git that was installed: git –version … Read more