How to remove a PHP version from the command line

Introduction

There may be times when you would like to remove a particular PHP version via the command line.

Procedure

To remove all PHP packages for a specific PHP version, use this command, where xx represents the version to remove.

For EA4 packages:

yum remove ea-phpxx*

For alt-php (CloudLinux) packages:

yum remove alt-phpxx*

For example, to remove all EA4 PHP packages for PHP 5.5, run this command:

yum remove ea-php55*

This removes the primary ea-php55 package and all of its associated packages.