I am on centos 6.5 and when I install do yum install php-common it goes ahead and installs some packages, but php is still not installed. And, when I want to install php directly it is says php-common is causing conflict and does install the php module or even php-cli independently.
What is php-common used for?
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Answer
To answer the question, here’s what’s in php-common on Redhat Enterprise 6.4 version of the package:
[marc@foo ~]$ rpm -ql php-common /etc/php.d /etc/php.d/curl.ini /etc/php.d/fileinfo.ini /etc/php.d/json.ini /etc/php.d/phar.ini /etc/php.d/zip.ini /etc/php.ini /usr/lib64/php /usr/lib64/php/modules /usr/lib64/php/modules/curl.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/fileinfo.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/json.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/phar.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/zip.so /usr/lib64/php/pear /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3 /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/CODING_STANDARDS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/CREDITS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/EXTENSIONS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/INSTALL /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/LICENSE /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/NEWS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.EXTENSIONS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.EXT_SKEL /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.MAILINGLIST_RULES /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.PARAMETER_PARSING_API /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.PHP4-TO-PHP5-THIN-CHANGES /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.REDIST.BINS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.RELEASE_PROCESS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.SELF-CONTAINED-EXTENSIONS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.STREAMS /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.SUBMITTING_PATCH /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.SVN-RULES /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.TESTING /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.TESTING2 /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.UNIX-BUILD-SYSTEM /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.WIN32-BUILD-SYSTEM /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.input_filter /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/README.namespaces /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/TSRM_LICENSE /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/ZEND_CHANGES /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/ZEND_LICENSE /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/php.ini-development /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/php.ini-production /usr/share/doc/php-common-5.3.3/regex_COPYRIGHT /usr/share/php /var/lib/php
As you can see, it basically contains the .so modules for curl, zip, fileinfo, json, and phar, plus license/support files.