Error when setting up _ installing MCrypt PHP Extension on Redhat 7 Enterprise x64

Error when setting up/installing MCrypt PHP Extension on Redhat 7 Enterprise x64

I knew that mcrypt was not installed when my call to phpmyadmin threw me a warning regarding the mcrypt extension.

Like so:
Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.

So, I got on to setting up mcrypt on my Redhat server in the Google cloud, using yum install php-mcrypt.

I got an error during the installation of mcrypt on my Redhat server in the Google cloud.

Error returned when installing mcrypt:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php-mcrypt-5.3.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: php-api = 20090626
Installed: php-common-5.4.16-42.el7.x86_64 (@rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-23.el7_0.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-23.el7_0.1.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-23.el7_0.3.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-36.el7_1.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-36.1.el7_2.1.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64
Available: php-common-5.4.16-36.3.el7_2.x86_64 (rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms)
php-api = 20100412-64

I searched around for a solution. There were many, but none that matched my error.

I then addressed my problem by using the following commands and solved the error that popped up while installing mcrypt in Redhat 7 Enterpise

$ cd /tmp/
$ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
$ ls *.rpm
$ sudo yum install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
$ sudo yum search php-mcrypt
$ sudo yum info php-mcrypt
$ sudo yum install php-mcrypt
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd

Hope it works for you!

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1 comment:

mapache said...

Hi,

It worked for me!!!

Thank you because you have avoid me a headache :)

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