How to install PHP mbstring on CentOS 6.2

Question

How do I install mbstring with PHP on CentOS 6.2

I've tried:

$ sudo yum install php-mbstring

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No package php-mbstring available.
Error: Nothing to do

But no packages were found?

Answer 1

None of above works for godaddy server centOS 6, apache 2.4, php 5.6

Instead, you should

Install the mbstring PHP Extension with EasyApache

check if you already have it by, putty or ssh

php -m | grep mbstring

[if nothing, means missing mbstring]

Now you need to goto godaddy your account page,

click manager server,

open whm ----- search for apache,

open "easy apache 4"(my case)

Now you need customize currently installed packages,

by

click "customize" button on top line next to "currently installed package..."

search mbstring,

click on/off toggle next to it.

click next, next, .... privision..done.

Now you should have mbstring

by check again at putty(ssh)

php -m | grep mbstring [should see mbstring]

or you can find mbstring at phpinfo() page

Answer 2

I have experienced the same issue before. In my case, I needed to install php-mbstring extension on GoDaddy VPS server. None of above solutions did work for me.

What I've found is to install PHP extensions using WHM (Web Hosting Manager) of GoDaddy. Anyone who use GoDaddy VPS server can access this page with the following address.

http://{Your_Server_IP_Address}:2087

On this page, you can easily find Easy Apache software that can help you to install/upgrade php components and extensions. You can select currently installed profile and customize and then provision the profile. Everything with Easy Apache is explanatory.

I remember that I did very similar things for HostGator server, but I don't remember how actually I did for profile update.

Edit: When you have got the server which supports Web Hosting Manager, then you can add/update/remove php extensions on WHM. On godaddy servers, it's even recommended to update PHP ini settings on WHM.

Answer 3

sudo yum install php<version>w-mbstring

ex. sudo yum install php56w-mbstring

Answer 4

*Make sure you update your linux box first

yum update

In case someone still has this problem, this is a valid solution:

centos-release : rpm -q centos-release

Centos 6.*

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm

Centos 5.*

wget http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm

Then just do this to update:

yum --enablerepo=remi upgrade php-mbstring

Or this to install:

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-mbstring

Answer 5

yum install php-mbstring (as per http://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php)

I think you have to install the EPEL repository http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Answer 6

Please check your /etc/yum.conf file, maybe it is exclude php packages.

You should remove php* from this line so you can download php-* packages:

exclude= courier* dovecot* exim* filesystem httpd* mod_ssl* mydns* php*

It's seems your server having some scripts like cPanel