How to upgrade PHP 7.3.23 to 8.2 on AL2023 instance?

Question

What are the required steps to upgrade our AL2023 instance's PHP from 7.3.23 to 8.2?

Thank you!

hyp · Accepted Answer

please refer the below commands.

```
# cat /etc/amazon-linux-release
Amazon Linux release 2023.4.20240401 (Amazon Linux)
# dnf info php8.2
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:40 ago on Thu Apr  4 07:56:33 2024.
Available Packages
Name         : php8.2
Version      : 8.2.15
Release      : 1.amzn2023.0.2
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 11 k
Source       : php8.2-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.src.rpm
Repository   : amazonlinux
Summary      : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites
URL          : http://www.php.net/
License      : PHP and Zend and BSD and MIT and ASL 1.0 and NCSA and Boost
Description  : PHP 8.2 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP 8.2 attempts to make it
             : easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP 8.2 also
             : offers built-in database integration for several commercial and
             : non-commercial database management systems, so writing a
             : database-enabled webpage with PHP 8.2 is fairly simple. The most common
             : use of PHP 8.2 coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.
# dnf install php
or
# dnf update php
# rpm -qa | grep php
php8.2-common-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-cli-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-mbstring-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-opcache-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-pdo-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-process-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-fpm-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-xml-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-sodium-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
php8.2-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64
```

ITW · Answer

Running `dnf install php-8.3` gives the conflicting error

```
# dnf install php8.3
Last metadata expiration check: 0:37:16 ago on Fri Nov  8 02:43:26 2024.
Error:
 Problem: problem with installed package php8.2-8.2.23-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
  - package php8.2-8.2.23-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from @System conflicts with php > 8.2.99 provided by php8.3-8.3.7-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from amazonlinux
  - package php8.3-8.3.7-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from amazonlinux conflicts with php < 8.3.0 provided by php8.2-8.2.23-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from @System
  - package php8.2-8.2.15-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from amazonlinux conflicts with php > 8.2.99 provided by php8.3-8.3.7-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64 from amazonlinux

# dnf info php8.3
Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:34 ago on Fri Nov  8 02:43:26 2024.
Available Packages
Name         : php8.3
Version      : 8.3.10
Release      : 1.amzn2023.0.1
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 10 k
Source       : php8.3-8.3.10-1.amzn2023.0.1.src.rpm
Repository   : amazonlinux
```

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