can't install php-devel on centos

Question

I need help with installation of php-devel (I need it, cause it has phpize, which is necessary to install eAccelerator). But when I try to install php-devel with yum install php-devel it gives me the following errors:

# yum install php-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
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 * base: centos.itt-consulting.com
 * epel: mirror.yandex.ru
 * extras: centos.itt-consulting.com
 * passenger: mirror.hmdc.harvard.edu
 * updates: centos.itt-consulting.com
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-devel.x86_64 0:5.3.3-14.el6_3 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: php = 5.3.3-14.el6_3 for package: php-devel-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php-devel-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64 (updates)
           Requires: php = 5.3.3-14.el6_3
           Installed: php-5.4.6-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (@remi-test)
               php = 5.4.6-1.el6.remi
           Available: php-5.3.3-3.el6_2.8.x86_64 (base)
               php = 5.3.3-3.el6_2.8
           Available: php-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64 (updates)
               php = 5.3.3-14.el6_3
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I have no idea what to do with these errors. And I have php 5.3.3 installed (phpinfo() says that), so don't understand why in this list I can see Installed: php-5.4...

Answer 1

Rather than running yum install php-devel you needed to run yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php54 install php-devel .

In short, just specifying which php-devel version you wanted from the remi repo. In your case you had php54 installed from remi so you needed to add in "remi-php54" . That would have successfully installed php-devel without the downtime.

Answer 2

What I did was:

yum search php53

and it showed the php-devel file to install. Once I did the search and found the correct devel package, I simply copied and pasted the entire name after yum install. I executed

yum install php53-devel.x86_64

to get it