laravel can't find mcrypt extension in php 5.5

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I get mcrypt error when I try to execute composer update command for Laravel 4.1 as follows:

 Mcrypt PHP extension required.
 Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an error

 [RuntimeException]  
 Error Output:

I already used the commands in order to install php5-mcrypt as below:

 sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
 sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
 sudo php5enmod mcrypt
 sudo service apache2 restart

What is wrong in here?

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phpapachelaravelcomposer-phpmcrypt
this doesn't have to do with apache ... what OS are you on ? – lagbox
yes you are right. I forgot explaining. It is Ubuntu 14.04 TLS – Onur Göker
do you have a /etc/php5/cli directory ? – lagbox
yes I have but I never worked in it. – Onur Göker
can you verify that /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini is a file and not a sym link ? – lagbox

1 Answers

3
votes

Remove the 20-mcrypt.ini symlink from the /etc/php5/mods-available folder

Try the php5enmod again.

If that isn't working still you can try.

sudo ln -s /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini