The error I'm facing is on Gitpod with PHP version, so the question is, how can I delete PHP completely from the workspace or replace it? Basically, I want to downgrade it.
I want to replace PHP with an older version. Unfortunately, I’m not able to get rid of the default PHP version 7.4 of the MySQL workspace.
I tried nearly every style of removing it in my .gitpod.Dockerfile file.
I activated the Feature Preview to have sudo support and I uninstalled every PHP version via gitpod dockerfile and ran
sudo apt-get purge ‘php*’
in the command line. It just says that no PHP is installed, but
whereis php
still gives me the output.
php -v
always gives me PHP v7.4
To install another php version is possible (e.g. with brew) but without removing the old one, I don’t know how I could use the new one.
Could someone please tell me, how can I downgrade this PHP version in "GITPOD" by replacing it or some other way?
Edit:
this was the code I was trying to run:
FROM gitpod/workspace-mysql
USER root
RUN sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
RUN sudo apt-get -y update
RUN sudo apt-get -y install php7.2
RUN sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.2
RUN sudo a2dismod php7.4 RUN
sudo systemctl restart apache2
USER gitpod
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
The problem is the install command. because of the script that runs in the background.
So the solution is running the following command instead of running apt-get install
install-packages php7.2
details of the answer could be found in the following thread:
Downgrade default PHP v7.4.3 to 7.1.3 or 7.2
I have been meaning to install ffmpeg as an extension to my PHP setup. So before I can install it, I need to phpize it. I installed php5-dev by sudo apt-get install php5-dev. But now when I run phpize I get the following error :
phpize
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module
The location of my php.ini is /usr/local/zend/etc/php.ini
From another online resource I tried this
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool m4
But all of them are already installed.
Locate config.m4 didn't return anything.
Any pointers here how I can get phpize and thus, ffmpeg up and running?
For recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu (Debian 9+ or Ubuntu 16.04+) install the php-dev dependency package, which will automatically install the correct version of php{x}-dev for your distribution:
sudo apt install php-dev
Older versions of Debian/Ubuntu:
For PHP 5, it's in the php5-dev package.
sudo apt-get install php5-dev
For PHP 7.x (from rahilwazir comment):
sudo apt-get install php7.x-dev
RHEL/CentOS/yum
yum install php-devel # see comments
For PHP7 Users
7.1
sudo apt install php7.1-dev
7.2
sudo apt install php7.2-dev
7.3
sudo apt install php7.3-dev
7.4
sudo apt install php7.4-dev
If not sure about your PHP version, simply run command php -v
Ohk.. I got it running by typing /usr/bin/phpize instead of only phpize.
Under Redhat Enterprise / CentOS, use yum to install the php-devel module:
yum install php-devel
For PHP 7, you need:
yum install php70-php-devel
Step - 1: If you are unsure about the php version installed,
then first run the following command in terminal
php -v
Output: the above command will output the php version installed on your machine, mine is 7.2
PHP 7.2.3-1ubuntu1 (cli) (built: Mar 14 2018 22:03:58) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.3-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Step 2: Then to install phpize run the following command, Since my php version is 7.2.3. i will replace it with 7.2, so the command will be,
sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev
Step 3: Done!
Alternate method(Optional):
To automatically install the phpize version based on the php version installed on your machine run the following command.
sudo apt-get install php-dev
This command will automatically detect the appropriate version of php installed and will install the matching phpize for the same.
Hmm... actually i dont know how this solved it? But the following steps solved it for me:
find / -name 'config.m4'
Now look if the config.m4 is anywhere in a folder of that stuff you want to phpize. Go to that folder and run phpize directly in there.
For ubuntu 14.04LTS with php 7, issue:
sudo apt-get install php-dev
Then install:
pecl install memcache
In Ubuntu 16.04, you can install phpize with the command
aptitude install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1
which is equivalent to
apt-get install php7.1-dev // for php 7.1
If you're having problems with phpize not found on CentOS7.x after you have installed the relevant devel tools for your version/s of PHP, this path finally worked for me:
For PHP 7.2.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/phpize
For PHP 7.3.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize
For PHP 7.4.x
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/usr/bin/phpize
Run this in your folder containing the downloaded PHP extension, for example in line 3 below:
Example based on installing the PHP v7.3.x Brotli Extension from https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli
git clone --recursive --depth=1 https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli.git
cd /php-ext-brotli
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/php-config
make
make test
Install from linux terminal
sudo apt-get install <php_version>-dev
Example :
sudo apt-get install php5-dev #For `php` version 5
sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev #For `php` version 7.0
Of course in PHP7.2
sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev
This might help someone on ubuntu. No promises.
sudo apt-get install libcurl3 php5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libmagic-dev
sudo apt-get install php-http make
sudo pecl install pecl_http
And adding "extension=http.so" to php.ini (Normally located at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
Then restart Apache (sudo service apache2 restart).
If in doubt, check your apache logs:
sudo su --
cd /var/log/apache2
tail -25 error.log
Is http.so starting or failing?
For instance, if you wanted to use the "phpize" command for PHP 5.6, you would use the full path:
Code:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/phpize
For ubuntu with Plesk installed run apt-get install plesk-php56-dev, for other versions just change XX in phpXX (without the dot)
Go to the downloaded folder and there you find config.m4. Open the terminal and run phpsize.
I had this exact problem on macOS in 2018.
For me, first running brew install php before sudo pecl install mongodb did the trick.
You didn't specify what operating system you're using, and 90% of the answers assume Ubuntu/Debian Linux because of the apt-get install autoconf automake libtool m4 command that you posted (and over half expect you to be running CPanel), so I'm giving you a slightly more generic solution which ought to work on any Un*x clone (including Microsoft's WSL!).
You will need at least a few prerequisites:
A working C/C++ compiler — GCC or clang being the most popular options these days.
A 'developer edition' of PHP, which some package managers call 'development headers'. In the case of aptitude, as shown on the other answers, you ought to be fine with just sudo apt install php-dev. Beware of the mentioned caveats: you might end up with a slightly more unstable version of PHP which might not be updated correctly with future versions.
These days (that's late 2021 for me!), for those running Ubuntu, and wishing to seriously tinker with PHP, the recommendation is to use Ondřej Surý's personal package archive for PHP. Ondřej keeps his PPA always up to date, sometimes within a few hours after release; he keeps up with the latest four Ubuntu distributions and all the currently supported PHP versions that haven't reached end-of-life status yet (sorry, PHP5 is considered completely obsolete and plagued with unpatched bugs and security issues, so it's not supported — for very good reasons!); and he provides a lot of PHP extensions, too. Sadly, ffmpeg-php is not one of them...
There is a good reason for the overall lack of support of ffmpeg-php. Allegedly, the original repository for that was hosted at Sourceforge but has been abandoned in 2007. The recommended package these days is PHP-FFMpeg which is constantly being updated, and ought to be easily installed using composer — get it before starting your compilation!
Alternatively, instead of relying on an external non-official PHP extension (albeit one that is both popular and updated regularly!), you ought to launch the ffmpeg binary using shell_exec(). This is the officially recommended approach, mostly because converting videos always takes a long time, and the authors of that recommendation suggest a simple architecture where the PHP script basically launches ffmpeg in the background, accepting batches of videos for processing. The page is a bit old, but the technique shown is sound.
I am using XAMPP on Linux mint and it is by default installed if your don't have
sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev
// or
sudo apt-get install php-dev
know more
Today I was upgrading PHP 5.5 on my LEMP stack to version 5.5.35. After upgrading I received an on-screen message that the repo ppa:ondrej/php5 is deprecated and if I want to continue receiving php updates I should move onto ppa:ondrej/php which now includes PHP 5.5, PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 in one place. Previously these versions were in different repos.
I followed Ondřej's advice and I run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
And then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade --show-upgraded
All went fine, except that two packages were held back: php-pear and pkg-php-tools. That of course happens from time to time when package dependencies change so I run:
sudo apt-get install php-pear pkg-php-tools
Then, I got a message that additionaly the following packages will be installed:
php-cli php-common php-xml php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml
Immediately I felt that something is wrong here. Why the hell I need PHP 7.0 packages when I'm running PHP 5.5? However I went with option YES and apparently everything went fine. The server is running, no errors or confilcts that I'm aware of. Then I was curious and I checked what version of PHP am I running?
php -v
The output was:
PHP 7.0.6-1+donate.sury.org~trusty...
What the hell happened here? How did I ended up installing PHP 7.0 and why the server/site isn't crashing? Since I use nginx with php-fpm, by examining the nginx.conf I can clearly see that nginx is pointing to php5-fpm.sock so I definitely run php5-fpm here. Plus the site is up, and there are no PHP errors in the log.
I also went and I've uploaded a phpinfo file. The file shows I'm using PHP 5.5.35. So there are two conflicting messages where command via ssh shows that the PHP version is 7.0.6, while the phpinfo file shows that the server is using PHP 5.5.35.
So I run:
sudo apt-get remove php7.0-common
All previously added php7.0 packages were removed and also those two that were initially being held back.
Now, after checking the PHP version via SSH it showed correctly 5.5.35. While all this was happening the server had no trouble whatsoever. The status at this moment is that I don't have php-pear and pkg-php-tools packages, but if I try to install them all those php7.0 packages will have to be installed too.
I've also examined /etc/php5 and /etc/php folders. In this second folder there is 7.0 folder where cli and mods-available folders with mods inside reside.
Can someone explain to me what is happening here and what should I do? Are php5 and php7.0 simultaneously running on the server? Do I need those two packages that were held back in LEMP + Wordpress stack?
php-pear and pkg-php-tools must depend on PHP CLI for default PHP version and that's PHP 7.0. Installing php-cli pulls php7.0-cli that will install /usr/bin/php7.0 and registers it as alternative with highest (70) priority to provide /usr/bin/php.
Installing PHP CLI binary is mostly harmless unless you need to run PHP scripts locally using command line. I could recommend two approaches:
Rewriting those scripts to specify required version, e.g. changing php <script> to php5.6 <script>, or
Use update-alternatives to switch /usr/bin/php to your desired PHP version: a) switch to specific version update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php5.6 or b) update-alternatives --config php configure the version by hand
More thorough version of the migration guide is located in DEB.SURY.ORG Wiki.
To use the new PHP FPM packages, you need to install:
sudo apt-get install php5.5-fpm # for PHP 5.5
sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm # for PHP 5.6
sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm # for PHP 7.0
and adjust the socket accordingly, look into default FPM configuration:
sudo editor /etc/php/X.Y/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
for the socket location (it's /run/php/phpX.Y-fpm.sock by default).
I am new to Ubuntu and PHP i need install PHP 5.3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04.I tried
several ways
1.apt-get install php5 (it is installing php 5.5.9 it is not version what i need )
2.sudo -i
wget http://in1.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.10.tar.bz2
tar -xvf php-5.3.10.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.10
./configure
make
make install
(when it run "make" command it is given error)
3.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5
(it is also not working for me )
any can tell how install php 5.3.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 step by step
Thank you
This will install php 5.3.10 version.on Ubuntu 14.04
Download shell script from this link. once you have that .sh downloaded file. you need to change the permission using this command
sudo chmod 755 php5_4_downgrade_5.3.sh
Next you can run the script using this command
sudo sh php5_4_downgrade_5.3.sh
I have a PHP-FPM installed in a VPS. As a result, now I am unable to run some commands that depend on PHP like.
php composer.phar update or curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
And other commands related with PEAR. I keep adding "-fpm" at the end like this php-fpm but it won't work. I also tried to install as yum install php but, it conflicts with PHP-FPM it won't install.
Any ideas/solutions?
EDIT
this is what I get when I run yum install php-cli
I have tried both suggestions mentioned at the bottom. But, still it does not install it.
Try installing php-cli:
yum install php-cli
This should give you the command line PHP which you are looking for.
I don't know why, but this finally did it.
sudo yum --enablerepo=remi install php-cli