yum install php-imap fails

[helmut]

a software I'm trying to install requires php-imap,
but in CentOS 7 it seems to fail with the message
"Warning: No matches found for: php-imap"
is it available?
where?

[helmut]

i didn't find any package. but i figured it out how to add it myself:

• download imap source code:

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  wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2007f.tar.gz

• make imap happen:

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  tar xvzf imap-2007f.tar.gz
  pushd imap-2007f
  make lfd EXTRACFLAGS=-fPIC IP6=4
  sudo cp -vi c-client/*.h /usr/local/include/
  sudo cp -vi c-client/*.c /usr/local/lib/
  popd

• download matching php source code (currently PHP 5.4.16):

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  wget http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.4.16.tar.gz

• make php-imap happen:

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  tar xvzf php-5.4.16.tar.gz
  pushd php-5.4.16/ext/imap/
  phpize
  ./configure --with-imap --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl
  make
  sudo cp -vi modules/imap.so /usr/lib64/php/
  popd
  sudo echo "extension=imap.so" > /etc/php.d/imap.ini

• restart httpd:

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  sudo service httpd restart

that added php-imap functionality to my CentOS 7 installation.
and it works well

[Maska]

you can install it from epel repo

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wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm -O /tmp/epel-release.rpm
rpm -i /tmp/epel-release.rpm
yum -y install php-imap

[TrevorH]

Installing from source on a package based distro is not a good idea.

[helmut]

you can install it from epel repo

Thanks, that worked

[lauriek334]

Yes the download and install from the epel repository works. As Centos 7 has now been released, the updated url for the rpm is:

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wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

[TrevorH]

You no longer need such complex methods: just yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release now works.