php56w-common conflicts with older version of php (Centos)

Question

I am trying to update my vagrant box to use PHP 5.6, and I am basically doing the following process on the command line.

• sudo yum remove php* (remove PHP)
• wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm (Installs the latest remi repo:) rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm
• sudo yum install php php-common php-devel php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysqlnd php-pdo php-pear php-soap php-xml php-pecl-apcu php-pecl-xdebug php-pecl-amqp

The first two steps seem fine however on the final step when doing the 'setup install process' I get the following error :

Error: php56w-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.3-46.el6_6.x86_64
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I need all of the modules above compatible with PHP 5.6, can anyone suggest what I should do next to get this working?

Solution 1

You should do

sudo yum install php56w php56w-common ...

instead of

sudo yum install php php-common, ...

Solution 2

Using remi repository, you need to enable the repository matching the wanted version, so for 5.6:

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php56

Then use the usual yum command.

Comments

[Michael Hampton]

He also should disable the webtatic repository, lest some of those conflicting packages get installed.

[Zabs]

@Remi thanks your repo site is brilliant! thanks for taking the time to answer this question :-)

[Remi Collet]

Notice that enabling "remi" is not more required, all dependencies are in base, epel and remi-safe (which is enabled by default)

[Ynhockey]

Note: The above doesn't automatically enable the basic remi repository, which is necessary to install some dependencies for the GD library. One should enable the remi repo as well.

[AVProgrammer]

yum list available 'php56w-*' and look for the package(s) you want. The architecture extension (eg. .x86_64) is not necessary for the yum install command.

[Remi Collet]

@Ynhockey all the dependencies are in the "remi-safe" repository, which is enabled by default.