It's a known fact that on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS 7.x based systems PHP 5.4.16 is the supported version. However, for my application I needed PHP 5.5 and I installed it from RHEL-recommended scl-utils repository as explained on https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Developer_Guide/scl-utils.html
The problem is that I have successfully installed all required packages except php55-php-mcrypt:
yum install php55-php-mcrypt
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No package php55-php-mcrypt available.
Error: Nothing to do
Could anyone recommend a way to get this package installed?
Explanation why "mcrypt" is a very bad idea, and is not part of standard repository : About libmcrypt and php-mcrypt
For people who want to use the official RHSCL packages on RHEL (which is also available in centos-scl repository), you can find additional packages in the community repositories:
Else, yes my repository is an alternative, see the Configuration Wizard
Switch to the Remi repo. It has 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0 available and they are supported as long as the PHP project supports them. Better still, he breaks that support into separate repos, so you pick the one you want and install the php-* RPMs. When you're ready to upgrade, enable the next repo and just yum update.
RPM of PHP version 7.0.2 are available in remi-php70 repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS).
RPM of PHP version 5.6.17 are available in remi repository for Fedora ≥ 21 and remi-php56 repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux.
RPM of PHP version 5.5.31 are available in remi repository for Fedora 20 and in remi-php55 repository for Enterprise Linux.