Repositories configuration:

On Fedora, standards repositories are enough, on Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS) the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository must be configured, and on RHEL the optional channel must be enabled.

Fedora 35

dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-35.rpm

Fedora 34

dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-34.rpm

RHEL version 8.5

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

RHEL version 7.9

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

CentOS Stream version 8

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

Alma, CentOS Stream, Rocky version 8

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

CentOS version 7

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

 

php module usage

With Fedora and EL ≥ 8, you can simply use the remi-8.1 stream of the php module

dnf module reset php
dnf module install php:remi-8.1

 

remi-php81 repository activation

Needed packages are in the remi-safe (enabled by default) and remi-php81 repositories, the latest is not enabled by default (administrator choice according to the desired PHP version).

RHEL or CentOS 7

yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php81

 

PHP upgrade

 

By choice, the packages have the same name than in the distribution, so a simple update is enough:

yum update

That's all :)

$ php -v
PHP 8.1.2 (cli) (built: Jan 18 2022 23:52:03) (NTS gcc x86_64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.1.2, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.1.2, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

 

Known issues

The upgrade can fail (by design) when some installed extensions are not yet compatible with  PHP 8.1.

See the compatibility tracking list: PECL extensions RPM status

If these extensions are not mandatory, you can remove them before the upgrade, else, you will have to be patient.

Warning: some extensions are still under development, but it seems useful to provide them to allow upgrade to more people, and to allow user to give feedback to the authors.

 

More d'information

If you prefer to install PHP 8.1 beside the default PHP version, this can be achieved using the php81 prefixed packages, see the PHP 8.1 as Software Collection post.

You can also try the configuration wizard.

The packages available in the repository will be used as sources for Fedora 35 (if self contained change proposal is accepted).

By providing a full feature PHP stack, with about 130 available extensions, 7 PHP versions, as base and SCL packages, for Fedora and Enterprise Linux, and with 300 000 download per day, remi repository became in the last 16 years a reference for PHP users on RPM based distributions, maintained by an active contributor to the projects (Fedora, PHP, PECL...).

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