How do I install the Memcached PHP extension

Question

How do I install the Memcached extension?

Answer

PHP extension Memcached is provided by EasyApache 4 in WHM with the following packages:

ea-php72-php-memcached
ea-php73-php-memcached
ea-php74-php-memcached
ea-php80-php-memcached
ea-php81-php-memcached

You can also install the Memcached extension on the command line, specifying one of the PHP versions above.

CentOS 7 systems:

yum install ea-phpXX-php-memcached

Almalinux/CentOS 8:

dnf install ea-phpXX-php-memcached

Ubuntu:

apt-get install ea-phpXX-php-memcached