No package php7.0-zip available

Question

I'm running php7 on a redhat machine and am getting the following error in laravel:

Class 'ZipArchive' not found

I had this issue on my personal virtual machine server and all I had to do was run:

sudo yum install php7.0-zip

On my dev server I tried running the command and I get:

sudo yum install php7.0-zip
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
No package php7.0-zip available.

Just for more information here is my php version:

php -v
PHP 7.1.12 (cli) (built: Dec  1 2017 13:53:12) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

Edit: If I run php7.1-zip

sudo yum install php7.1-zip
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
epel/x86_64/metalink                                     |  16 kB     00:00     
gitlab_gitlab-ee/x86_64/signature                        |  836 B     00:00     
gitlab_gitlab-ee/x86_64/signature                        | 1.0 kB     00:00 !!! 
gitlab_gitlab-ee-source/signature                        |  836 B     00:00     
gitlab_gitlab-ee-source/signature                        |  951 B     00:00 !!! 
icinga-stable-release                                    | 2.5 kB     00:00     
jenkins                                                  | 2.9 kB     00:00     
plesk-php-5.6                                            | 2.9 kB     00:00     
plesk-php-7.0                                            | 2.9 kB     00:00     
remi-php71                                               | 2.9 kB     00:00     
remi-safe                                                | 2.9 kB     00:00     
(1/2): remi-php71/primary_db                               | 208 kB   00:00     
(2/2): remi-safe/primary_db                                | 1.1 MB   00:01     
No package php7.1-zip available.
Error: Nothing to do

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I was getting:

No package php7.0-zip available. Error: Nothing to do

when running

yum install php7.0-zip

I first searched all yum packages by running:

yum search php70-zip

if returns nothing then run :

yum search php70-php-zip

if returned:

php70-zip.x86_64 : ZIP archive management extension for PHP

Then I installed the package that the search told me was there:

yum install php70-zip.x86_64

The installation worked like a charm. Then I restarted my apache server.

service httpd restart

Now php zip (for php7) is installed!