mcrypt on a CentOS Cloud VM

Important Note:

This article is only to be followed on CentOS Cloud VMs - other operating systems may require other steps to enable 'mcrypt'.

CentOS

CentOS does not provide the php-mcrypt nor the php53-mcrypt package in the default repository: you will need to install the EPEL repository in order to install this package.

CentOS 7

# 64 Bit

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS 6

# 64 Bit

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

 

# 32 Bit

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS 5

# 64 Bit

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

 

# 32 Bit

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

CloudLinux

CloudLinux distribution will have the package in the cloudlinx-updates repo and the following command can be used to install it:

yum install php53-mcrypt