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 27

wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-27.rpm
dnf install remi-release-27.rpm

Fedora 26

wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-26.rpm
dnf install remi-release-26.rpm

RHEL version 7.4

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget http://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

RHEL version 6.9

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
rhn-channel --add --channel=rhel-$(uname -i)-server-optional-6

CentOS version 7.4

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

CentOS version 6.9

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

 

remi-php72 repository activation

Needed packages are in the remi-safe (enabled by default) and remi-php72 repositories, the latest is not enabled by default (administrator choice according to the desired PHP version).

RHEL or CentOS

yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php72

Fedora

dnf install dnf-plugins-core
dnf config-manager --set-enabled remi-php72

 

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 7.2.0 (cli) (built: Nov 28 2017 10:27:47) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.0, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.6.0alpha1, Copyright (c) 2002-2017, by Derick Rethans