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Vivek Sharma
Asked: 2018-01-05 00:26:04 +0800 CST

Need to install PHP 5.6

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I have tried these below commands to install PHP 5.6 while installing Lampp:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
  sudo apt-get update 
  sudo apt-get install php5.6
  sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql 
  php5.6-xml

But I am getting this error:

php5.6 is already the newest version (5.6.32-
1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
21 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
/usr/bin/dpkg: error while loading shared libraries: libselinux.so.1: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (127)

I tried many below links:

But I am getting this error still, and now I am unable to use apt-get -f install or install any other software.

dpkg

2 Answers

  1. Your question seems to be that you want to install php5.6, yet your system says php5.6 is already installed.

    Can you use apt-get or dpkg commands at all? It looks like there is a problem with libselinux.so.1 or with the cache.

    Run ldconfig as root. That should fix possible errors with shared libraries that are not registered properly in the cache.


    References:
    SE: Debian dpkg broken after apt-get upgrade
    SO: Resolve error while loading shared libraries: libselinux.so.1 in ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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  2. Your output actually saying you are already having PHP 5.6 latest version on your system. However try the below.

    Try apt-get autoremove then apt-get remove <your package> then install again your package apt-get install <your package>

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