How to install php 5 on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I tried to use this command to install php in Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

But it shows:

'php5' has no installation candidate

How can I install it?

Answer 1

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7, so there are no PHP5 packages.

However, if you like, you can add a PPA to get those packages:

Remove all the stock php packages

List installed php packages with dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\\n" " " then remove unneeded packages with sudo aptitude purge your_packages_here or if you want to directly remove them all use :

sudo aptitude purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`

Add the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Install your PHP Version

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5.6

You can install php5.6 packages.

Then, verify your PHP version

sudo php -v