Installing php-mcrypt / varnish for PHP 5.3 on CentOS 6.0

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Mario Albrecht
– August 15, 2011Posted in: Tutorial

Run the following line on the shell and press 2 times “y”

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Then you can install php-mcrypt or varnish for PHP 5.3 like any other rpm via

yum install php-mcrypt

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Mario's first programming experience was a small calculation program written in BASIC on a Commodore Amiga in the early 90s. Since then, he as written code for dozens of companies and nonprofits such as Mednovo Medical Software Solutions, Telesense and ROOT Gaming. He creates modifications and tool for video games, like Diablo 2 and StarCraft 2, and helps out as technical administrator on various big internet communities and clans.

Mario uses Delphi as his language of choice for desktop development and PHP / Drupal for web applications. Mario loves challenging problems of any nature. If there is somebody saying "Thats technically not possible!" you'll most likely find Mario with his headphones on, working on a solution.

On weekend adventures, you'll find Mario playing a nice game of Magic: The Gathering or in a pub drinking beer.