The php it self is a meta package which pulls other necessary packages and installs them on your system.
For now you are playing with the meta package and it does not have any effect on your system, to get a running PHP, you have to install php7.0 which installs:
- php7.0-common (documentation, examples and common module for PHP)
And most likly one of these three depends on how you want to interact with your PHP,
- php7.0-fpm (FPM-CGI binary)
- libapache2-mod-php7.0 (Apache 2 module)
- php7.0-cgi (CGI binary)
you can even install php7.0-cli to only get a PHP command line.
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3 years ago
For various reasons I'm trying to reinstall PHP. I removed it with
apt-get purge php, and added it again withapt-get install php. However, something funny is happening, in that it is installed but is unusable, and I don't know where it installed to either. When I runphp -vI just see:and
whereis phpoutputsphp: /usr/share/php7.0-mcrypt /usr/share/php7.0-mysql /usr/share/php7.0-json /usr/share/php7.0-readline /usr/share/php7.0-curl /usr/share/php7.0-mbstring /usr/share/php /usr/share/php7.0-gd /usr/share/php7.0-common /usr/share/php7.0-opcache /usr/share/php7.0-xml /usr/share/php7.0-zip /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz, none of which are the actual PHP executable.However if I run
apt-get install phpagain then I get toldphp is already the newest version (1:7.0+35ubuntu6), so it is installed somewhere.I haven't knowingly changed my $PATH variable, which I read could cause this, but here it is anyway:
/home/myname/bin:/home/myname/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin.I'm on 16.04.