How to install and Enable Remi Repository in Alma/Rocky Linux 8/9

Remi’s RPM repository is a free and stable YUM repository mainly for the PHP stack. It contains packages for the latest versions of PHP. The Remi repository can be used on on Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / Alma / Rocky and other clones).

Prerequisites

To follow along this guide, ensure you have the following:

A RHEL Based Server with root access or a user who can execute sudo commands
Internet access
Some packages in the Remi Repository depends on epel-release so if you don’t have install it with

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sudo dnf install epel-release

For older versions of RHEL/Centos, checkout:

How to install and Enable Remi Repository in Centos 6/7/8

Enabling the remi repo

To enable the remi repo, Install the rpm provided by remi in this url http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-<version>.rpm, version being the RHEL Release version.

Example:

For RHEL / Alma / Rocky Linux 8:

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sudo rpm -ivh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

Or you can use this

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sudo dnf install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm

For RHEL / Alma / Rocky Linux 9:

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sudo rpm -ivh http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-9.rpm

Or you can use this

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sudo dnf install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-9.rpm

Once the installation is done, confirm that the repo is enabled with this command:

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$ sudo dnf repolist

repo id                                         repo name
...
remi-modular                                    Remi's Modular repository for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64
remi-safe                                       Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64

If you see remi in the list then it means its been installed.

Installing packages from Remi repository

To use packages from the remi repository, you need to enable them. Lets list modules providing php using this command:

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$ sudo dnf module list php

Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:07 ago on Fri 21 Oct 2022 07:05:57 AM UTC.
Remi's Modular repository for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64
Name                                     Stream                                      Profiles                                                      Summary
php                                      remi-7.4                                    common [d], devel, minimal                                    PHP scripting language
php                                      remi-8.0                                    common [d], devel, minimal                                    PHP scripting language
php                                      remi-8.1                                    common [d], devel, minimal                                    PHP scripting language
php                                      remi-8.2                                    common [d], devel, minimal                                    PHP scripting language

Hint: [d]efault, [e]nabled, [x]disabled, [i]nstalled

If you want to install php 8.2 for instance, enable it with this command:

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sudo dnf module enable php:remi-8.2

You can then install it with the dnf install command:

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sudo dnf install php php-cli

To search all packages, use this command:

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sudo dnf search php

That is it!

We managed to enable and set up REMI release on RHEL 8 and 9 and its derivatives.