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Ahmad
Asked: 2016-07-22 02:58:08 +0800 CST

How can I install php5-mcrypt

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When I try to use sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt to install php5-mcrypt, I receive the following error. I used sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ to install the php5

ahmad@ubuntu:/var/www/html$ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-mcrypt is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'php5-mcrypt' has no installation candidate
apt

1 Answers

  1. php5-mcrypt (MCrypt module for php5) has been updated to php7.0-mcrypt (libmcrypt module for PHP) in Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04. The command sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ in Ubuntu 16.04 searches the package list files for all Task: fields and gets all with lamp-server, among them is php7.0. Then it installs those packages the standard way with sudo apt-get install package1 package2...

    In Ubuntu 16.04 open the terminal and type:

    sudo apt-get install php7.0-mcrypt

    In Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04 php5-mcrypt has been updated to php7.1-mcrypt.

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