Centos – How to install mcrypt for PHP 5.3.3 on CentOS 5.7 64 bit

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I installed php 5.3 and some modules using 

yum install php53-{module-name}

But mcrypt did not work.

I searched like this:

yum list php* | grep mcry

The only package that came up was

php-mcrypt.x86-64         5.1.6-15.e15.centos.1    extras

I have the same exact problem with mhash.
The results for php are even more confusing.

I know this is probably a dumb question, but any help would be appreciated. I am used to Ubuntu's simple "apt-get install" and everything works. CentOS seems to be a lot more detail oriented.

Thanks.

EDIT: Here's what I tried:

yum install php53-mcrypt

Result:

No package php53-mcrypt available

And trying this:

yum install php-mcrypt

Results in:

Error: php53-common conflicts with php-common

Because php-mcrypt tries to get php-common as a dependency (?) and I am trying to use php 5.3 rather than the default php 5.1 on CentOS 5.7.

Best Answer

Is php 5.3 really necessary for what you're doing? Don't automatically assume newer is better.

If you upgrade to CentOS 6 php 5.3 is the default.

What you have to understand is RedHat (and thus its clones) is very conservative about upgrading packages with good reason. If you want the to push it and get more upgraded packages, expect problems.

That said, the package you are looking for exists! All you need to do is

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum install php53-mcrypt

The EPEL repo contains more, and more upgraded packages to compliment the default repository.

Install EPEL Repository On 32-bit CentOS Linux 5.5:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Install EPEL Repository On 64-bit CentOS Linux 5.5:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
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