So I’m really new to VPS. And domain hosting. But this seems to be the right place to ask newbie questions.
I’ve just spun up a Ubuntu 16.04 install on a VPS. I chose Ubuntu because I use it at work, and I hadn’t seen anything saying this was a bad idea.
I see that PHP 7.x is installed along with Virtualmin. But I would like to install a full php5.6 (or whatever the highest php5.x version is) package to have the option to run if I need to. In various places I found reference to commands like this:
apt install php5.6 php5.6-cgi php5.6-mysql
or
apt-get install php5.6-mysql php5.6-curl php5.6-gd php-pear php-imagick php5.6-imap php5.6-mcrypt php-memcache php5.6-tidy php5.6-xmlrpc php5.6-xsl php5.6-mbstring php5.6-zip php5.6-fpm php5.6-cgi php5.6-cli
or
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get install php5.6-mysql php5.6-curl php5.6-gd php-pear php-imagick php5.6-imap php5.6-mcrypt php-memcache php5.6-tidy php5.6-xmlrpc php5.6-xsl php5.6-mbstring php5.6-zip php5.6-fpm php5.6-cgi php5.6-cli
But none of these work. They alll produce output like this:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-mysql
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-mysql’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-mysql’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-curl
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-curl’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-curl’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-gd
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-gd’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-gd’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-imap
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-imap’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-imap’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-mcrypt
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-mcrypt’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-mcrypt’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-tidy
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-tidy’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-tidy’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-xmlrpc
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-xmlrpc’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-xmlrpc’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-xsl
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-xsl’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-xsl’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-mbstring
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-mbstring’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-mbstring’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-zip
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-zip’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-zip’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-fpm
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-fpm’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-fpm’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-cgi
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-cgi’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-cgi’
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-cli
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php5.6-cli’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6-cli’
I’m glad to be pointed at appropriate webpages to find the commands myself…
Thanks,
Norman