How to uninstall an older PHP version from centOS7

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My project is on Laravel 5.2. and as per guide it required php >= 5.5.6 but there was php 5.4 intalled and I had to upgrade php version through YUM, But now it is giving error "PDO driver not found" and I tried YUM install php-pdo but it's giving error that "there is conflict between php56w-common and php-comon-5.4.16". I am stuck on this point

try to completely remove php5.4 and reinstall php5.6 - or use software collections — Gntem, Apr 21 '17 at 08:29

score 53 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 08:28

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yum -y remove php* to remove all php packages then you can install the 5.6 ones.

answered Apr 21 '17 at 08:28

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first all of need to get all php first `yum list installed | grep php` and depend on php version you installed, for my case I run `yum remove -y php71*` – Mike Nguyen Dec 10 '18 at 07:51

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 21 '17 at 09:52

Subscribing to the IUS Community Project Repository

cd ~
curl 'https://setup.ius.io/' -o setup-ius.sh

Run the script:

sudo bash setup-ius.sh

Upgrading mod_php with Apache

This section describes the upgrade process for a system using Apache as the web server and mod_php to execute PHP code. If, instead, you are running Nginx and PHP-FPM, skip ahead to the next section.

Begin by removing existing PHP packages. Press y and hit Enter to continue when prompted.

sudo yum remove php-cli mod_php php-common

Install the new PHP 7 packages from IUS. Again, press y and Enter when prompted.

sudo yum install mod_php70u php70u-cli php70u-mysqlnd

Finally, restart Apache to load the new version of mod_php:

sudo apachectl restart

You can check on the status of Apache, which is managed by the httpd systemd unit, using systemctl:

systemctl status httpd

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-to-php-7-on-centos-7 — Ghasem, Nov 06 '18 at 06:10

How to uninstall an older PHP version from centOS7

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