can't install php-devel on centos

Question

I need help with installation of php-devel (I need it, cause it has phpize, which is necessary to install eAccelerator). But when I try to install php-devel with yum i

Answer 1

yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php55 install php55-devel 

worked for me

Answer 2

About the initial question (install eAccelerator).

This project is dead, and have never work with PHP >= 5.4.

So if you need an opcode cache, please choose a maintained one. I would recommend "opcache", the official cache maintained by the PHP project, included in php-src since 5.5, and available in pecl for 5.4.

And if you use "remi" repository, before trying to build an extension, check first if it is available in the repository, as most of the PECL extensions are available as RPM, see http://blog.remirepo.net/pages/PECL-extensions-RPM-status

Answer 3

What I did was:

yum search php53

and it showed the php-devel file to install. Once I did the search and found the correct devel package, I simply copied and pasted the entire name after yum install. I executed

yum install php53-devel.x86_64

to get it

Answer 4

Rather than running yum install php-devel you needed to run yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php54 install php-devel .

In short, just specifying which php-devel version you wanted from the remi repo. In your case you had php54 installed from remi so you needed to add in "remi-php54" . That would have successfully installed php-devel without the downtime.

Answer 5

If you have php 5.5.x, centos 6.5 64 try this

yum install php55w-devel

You will need also gcc

yum install gcc.x86_64

Answer 6

php was installed from Remi's repository. You will need to either downgrade to the stock php, or get php-devel from the same place.