yum - Installing a package without updating dependencies

I'm trying to install ZABBIX monitoring software with yum on a server. When I attempt to install the package, yum prompts me to update php to 7.30.0.

Installing: OpenIPMI-libs x86_64 2.0.23-2.el7 base 521 k OpenIPMI-modalias x86_64 2.0.23-2.el7 base 16 k dejavu-fonts-common noarch 2.33-6.el7 base 64 k dejavu-sans-fonts noarch 2.33-6.el7 base 1.4 M iksemel x86_64 1.4-6.el7 epel 50 k zabbix-agent x86_64 3.4.11-1.el7 zabbix 365 k zabbix-server-mysql x86_64 3.4.11-1.el7 zabbix 2.0 M zabbix-web noarch 3.4.11-1.el7 zabbix 2.7 M zabbix-web-mysql noarch 3.4.11-1.el7 zabbix 6.9 k
Installing for dependencies: php70w-ldap x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 35 k
Updating for dependencies: php70w x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 2.8 M php70w-bcmath x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 38 k php70w-cli x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 2.9 M php70w-common x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 1.2 M php70w-devel x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 2.5 M php70w-fpm x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 1.5 M php70w-gd x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 136 k php70w-intl x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 181 k php70w-mbstring x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 543 k php70w-mcrypt x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 28 k php70w-odbc x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 52 k php70w-opcache x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 131 k php70w-pdo x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 93 k php70w-process x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 43 k php70w-soap x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 174 k php70w-xml x86_64 7.0.30-1.w7 webtatic 130 k

The thing is, I know for a fact that updating php to this version makes it so that it doesn't work correctly with the old version of zend I'm running. Additionally, the zabbix documentation states that php version 5.4.0 or later should be compaptible with the version I'm running, which is 7.0.27.

My question is, shouldn't Zabbix work correctly without updating php or am i missing something? If so, is there a way to work around this problem on Yum? Also, I should mention that ldap is not used for authentication so it shouldn't be required either.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Try with yum exclude option. -x, --exclude=package Exclude a specific package by name or glob from updates on all repositories. Configuration Option: exclude

Not really sure that this will work out not but you can try yum download to download the package only without installing them. Then you can install it with rpm commands.

Reference command for downloading a package is,

yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root/Desktop httpd

For complete tutorial, you can refer to following article,

Hope this helps.