PHP 8 Installation in openSUSE – Step-by-step

Installing PHP

2. 2. Installing PHP 8

   Now to Install PHP 8 on openSUSE
   For the latest available 8.x release simply play:

   sudo zypper install php8

   This Setup includes also the most useful Extensions and Tools.
   Then Test your new Php with:

   php -v

3. 3. Searching PHP 8 Extensions

   Again to Search PHP 8 Extensions.

   So you can Search for the available PHP 8 Extensions running:

   zypper search php8

   And possibily refine the Result using a grep Pipe

   zypper search php8 | grep [KEYWORD]

   Like for instance:

   zypper search php8 | grep mysql

   Last, to Install multiple Packages at once you may use the following Syntax:

   sudo zypper install php8-{curl,imagick,mysql,fpm,bz2}