Installing php-mbstring on RHEL6

Submitted by John on Tue, 2011-03-01 10:00

I wanted to install the mbstring PHP extension on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. But to my surprise, it wasn't there:

# yum install php-mbstring
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
No package php-mbstring available.
Error: Nothing to do

That's because the package is in the RHEL Server Optional repository.

I went into RHN and enabled the repository:

After doing yum update I could do yum install php-mbstring with no problems.

Topic: 
PHP
RHEL6

Comments

Submitted by Prajwal (not verified) on Thu, 2017-12-14 03:23.

How to go to that optional repository

Submitted by John on Thu, 2017-12-14 07:35.

With a RHEL subscription.