laravel class memcached not found

Question

First of all , I have looked at all of these :

and none of them is my case nor has really a soloution.

The problem is that I am developing a website by laravel 5.3.18 and here is the PHP info running on my server:

PHP 7.0.9-2 (cli) ( NTS )                                                    
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group                                        
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies                
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.9-2, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

And also here is my server OS info if you need to take a look at:

No LSB modules are available.                          
Distributor ID: Debian                                 
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux stable-updates (sid)  
Release:        stable-updates                         
Codename:       sid

I need to change CACHE_DRIVER to memcached in order to use this package(according to what they say in the GitHub issues about fixing the found bug).

Here is where all my problems started.

I have thses memcahed packages installed on my server(listed by dpkg --list):

I see everyone is talking avout installing php5-memcached but shockingly when I try to install php5-memcached I get this:

and tha's after running sudo apt-get update!

I even get this after entering sudo service memcached status:

After all of these when I change the CACHE_DRIVER to memcached, it keeps on showing this error:

While I am still struggling with this, Any ideas on this guys? I would be appreciative!

Try installing PHP7 compatible memcached package. Add this repo ppa:ondrej/php and then install php-memcached package. — Can Vural
If you're already running php 7, you shouldn't need to add any repositories. Try installing php7.0-memcached instead. — Joel Hinz

Peet Del. Peet Del. · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-09T09:39:21

It's possible that the memcached.ini is being copied to the PHP5 module config directory.

Try this:

ln -s /etc/php/mods-available/memcached.ini /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-memcached.ini

You might copy msgpack.ini too:

ln -s /etc/php/mods-available/msgpack.ini /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d/20-msgpack.ini

laravel class memcached not found

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