How to Install and Uninstall php56-php-oci8.x86_64 Package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Last updated: January 10,2025

1. Install "php56-php-oci8.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to install php56-php-oci8.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "php56-php-oci8.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall php56-php-oci8.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8):


    
        
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3. Information about the php56-php-oci8.x86_64 package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

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Available Packages
Name : php56-php-oci8
Version : 5.6.40
Release : 39.el8.remi
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 117 k
Source : php56-php-5.6.40-39.el8.remi.src.rpm
Repository : remi-safe
Summary : A module for PHP applications that use OCI8 databases
URL : http://www.php.net/
License : PHP
Description : The php56-php-oci8 packages provides the OCI8 extension version 2.0.12
: and the PDO driver to access Oracle Database.
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: The extension is linked with Oracle client libraries 21.10
: (Oracle Instant Client). For details, see Oracle's note
: "Oracle Client / Server Interoperability Support" (ID 207303.1).
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: You must install libclntsh.so.21.1 to use this package, provided
: in the database installation, or in the free Oracle Instant Client
: available from Oracle.
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: Notice:
: - php56-php-oci8 provides oci8 and pdo_oci extensions from php sources.
: - php56-php-pecl-oci8 only provides oci8 extension.
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: Documentation is at http://php.net/oci8 and http://php.net/pdo_oci