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When I run sudo yum install php56 on my centos7 ec2 instance, the actual version installed is 5.4. 

Installing: php x86_64 5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 1.4 M php-cli x86_64 5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.2 amzn2-core 2.8 M

I canceled that and tried an archive sudo yum install --enablerepo=ius-archive php56u and got an dependency error:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: php56u-common-5.6.40-1.ius.el7.x86_64 (ius-archive) Requires: php56u-pecl-jsonc(x86-64) Available: php56u-pecl-jsonc-1.3.6-2.ius.el7.x86_64 (ius-archive) php56u-pecl-jsonc(x86-64) = 1.3.6-2.ius.el7 .....

How do I resolve that package?

I have considered building php 5.6 from source using steps from this site but it is quite long and complicated and I am not an expert. I would rather figure out how to fix the dependency error above.

Any other ideas on how I can get php 5.5+ (I cannot do php7) on this Amazon Linux 2 machine?

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  • You have to remove all the existing PHP packages first. yum remove php* Commented Jan 18, 2020 at 1:35
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    Also everything below PHP 7.2 is EOL, and 7.4 is current. Don't shackle yourself to PHP5. php.net/supported-versions.php Commented Jan 18, 2020 at 1:37

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I 'fixed' my issue, though not by installing php 5.6. In the end I realized I was spending alot of time trying to get old unsupported code when I could instead spend that time making my code work with php 7/Maria - something I would eventually have to do anyways. Yes, it's taken a few days to work out the kinks, but it's time well spent. Adios PHP5.

I won't mark this as an answer since it doesn't directly address the challenge.

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IUS is not compatible with Amazon Linux. Anything that happens to work is pure luck and should not be counted on.

https://ius.io/faq#is-ius-compatible-with-amazon-linux

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