Removing PHP 7.2, and installing PHP 5.6 [duplicate]

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I'm a new Linux user, and I'm using a web server with a software that requires PHP 5.6, creating an incompatibility issue that I have been trying to solve for at least two days now. I read up a bunch of threads here on it, but none of them really solved the issue. The Linux version I'm at is 18.04.

So, what I tried so far:

• To uninstall PHP 7.2 using sudo apt-get purge php7.0-common
• To disable the proxy using sudo a2dismod proxy_fcgi proxy (it returns that the proxy is already disabled)
• To install PHP 5.6 using sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php or sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/apache2, it installs it
• After using sudo apt-get update, and using this sudo apt-get install php7.0 php5.6 php5.6-mysql php-gettext php5.6-mbstring php-xdebug libapache2-mod-php5.6 libapache2-mod-php7.0, I get the error:
  • I used this thread suggested on the comments, and the php5-compat helped, now at least when I try to unmount/mount (or whatever it's called) I don't get a "php5.6 module doesn't exist" anymore, and now if I do sudo apt-cache search php5.6 --names-only I get the list of packages for the first time.

Since I got that part done now, I'll consider it as done and see with the Oxwall people about their requirements. Thanks a bunch.