Install pear on php 5.6

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I'm trying to install pear using the following:

sudo apt-get install php-pear

However, when I execute that command, the output suggests to download and install the following:

php-cli php-xml php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml

The problem is I am running PHP 5.6 as you can see from the following:

>> php -v
PHP 5.6.19-1+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (cli) 

Is it possible to force Ubuntu to use PHP 5.6?

manpreet 2 years ago

I'm not sure why hfi2512's answer was downvoted, but given the question it would seem as if he's certainly on the right path to your f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/solution">solution.

Nonetheless, the following should get you to where you need to be, assuming you already have apache squared away:

sudo carousel_pick_lines_count
sudo apt-get f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/update">update
sudo apt-get install -y php5.6 libapache2-mod-php5.6
sudo apt-get install -y php5.6-mysql php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mysql php5.6-curl php5.6-xml php5.6-xmlrpc

sudo a2dismod php7.0 # Just in case it's still on your system
sudo a2enmod php5.6

sudo apache2ctl graceful

I would also be curious to see what the output for the following would be:

find /usr/bin -name "php*" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/file">file; do printf "%s -> %s\n" $f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/file">file $(readlink -f $f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/file">file); done

I'm running a box with a dual PHP5.6/7.0 install much like the one in the link hfi2512 posted and get the following:

/usr/bin/php -> /usr/bin/php5.6
/usr/bin/php7.0 -> /usr/bin/php7.0
/usr/bin/php5.6 -> /usr/bin/php5.6

That should help you f="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/track">track down which ones are currently installed and which one your system is pointing to by default.