How to install php 5 on Ubuntu 16.04

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I tried to use this command to install php in Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

But it shows:

'php5' has no installation candidate

How can I install it?

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phpapacheubuntuubuntu-16.04
to run just $ php /find/location/file to install on ubuntu 6 i think php 7 will installed – Iqbal Rizky
maybe u wanna read this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu – Iqbal Rizky
your provided link is not reach 404 error – Ankush Singh
Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP 7.0. If you want to install version 5, you'll have to find a third party source or compile from source. – Alex Howansky
You might get better help at AskUbuntu. There are already posts there related to this topic, like this: askubuntu.com/questions/756879/… – Gino Mempin

1 Answers

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votes

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7, so there are no PHP5 packages.

However, if you like, you can add a PPA to get those packages:

Remove all the stock php packages

List installed php packages with dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " " then remove unneeded packages with sudo aptitude purge your_packages_here or if you want to directly remove them all use :

sudo aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`

Add the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Install your PHP Version

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5.6

You can install php5.6 packages.

Then, verify your PHP version

sudo php -v