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Shantanu Sarkar
Asked: 2020-04-25 21:51:42 +0800 CST

Install php5.6 on 20.04 LTS

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I have recently installed 20.04 LTS on my Laptop. I need to install php 5.6. I have googled a lot regarding it, but all are suggesting to install Via Ondrej Suri PPA. I have done that but it is giving error that 'unable to locate package php5.6'. I have checked their repository and found that they have support for 19.10 version but not for 20.04.

I am a noob to linux. Please suggest an alternate way. I badly need this.

20.04 php5-fpm

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It looks like the Ondřej Surý PPA has now been updated for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. php5.6 works fine after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 with do-release-upgrade -d 

    $ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"

$ sudo apt-get install php5.6-cli 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5.6-cli is already the newest version (5.6.40- 
27+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

$ /usr/bin/php5.6 -v
PHP 5.6.40-27+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
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