The “ea-phpXX” package does not provide an executable binary if the PHP was partially uninstalled.

Note: Ubuntu servers do not seem affected by this error.

Symptoms

WHM MultiPHP returning error for missing ea-phpX-binary.

CPANEL_ERROR: Error: (XID snqreh) 1 error occurred: Error #1: The “ea-phpXX” package does not provide an executable binary.

Cause

The error is being caused by a left over packages for ea-phpXX version. 

Resolution

The error can be resolved by removing the packages manually.

First check for any leftover packages after removing the ea-phpXX version.

# rpm -qa | grep ea-phpXX

After that you can uninstall the packages using dnf or rpm utilities. 

# dnf remove -y ea-phpXX-package-name

# rpm -e --nodeps ea-phpXX-package-name

Or use wildcard asteriks * to remove all ea-phpXX packages.

# yum remove -y ea-phpXX*

Packages that often cause this are: