Installation procedure for php5.6 (officel release) and php7 (alpha) on Ubuntu 14.04, via
phpbrew package.
Install requirements for phpbrew:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get build-dep php5
apt-get install php5 php5-dev php-pear autoconf automake curl build-essential libxslt1-dev re2c libxml2 libxml2-dev php5-cli bison libbz2-dev libreadline-dev
apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg8-dev libjpeg8 libgd-dev libgd3 libxpm4 libltdl7 libltdl-dev
[optional / in some cases already exists]
apt-get install libssl-dev openssl
apt-get install gettext libgettextpo-dev libgettextpo0
apt-get install php5-cli
apt-get install libmcrypt-dev
apt-get install libreadline-dev
Install phpbrew
curl -L -O https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/raw/master/phpbrew
chmod +x phpbrew
sudo mv phpbrew /usr/bin/phpbrew
Initialise phpbrew, update
phpbrew init
phpbrew known --update
phpbrew update
phpbrew self-update
List supported versions, install php 5.6
phpbrew known
phpbrew install 5.6.10 +default
Switch the default PHP version to 5.6.10
phpbrew switch 5.6.10
Install php-7, currently Alpha
phpbrew install next as php-7.0.0
phpbrew use php-7.0.0
I often use Virtualmin, so after PHP is compiled, let’s tell Virtualmin that it’s available to use.
Virtualmin looks for additional PHPs in a specific place so we have to do some symlinking to ensure it finds our PHPBrew installed PHP.
sudo mkdir /opt/rh/
sudo ln -s /root/.phpbrew/php/php-5.6.10/ /opt/rh/php56
Re-Check Configuration, and you get something like: The following PHP versions are available : 5.5.9 (/usr/bin/php5-cgi), 5.6.10 (/opt/rh/php56/bin/php-cgi)
Sources:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/550191/install-php-5-4-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts-without-compiling
https://devkardia.com/easyblog/ubuntu-12-04-multiple-php-versions-and-virtualmin-using-phpbrew.html
https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/issues/462
Hi
thanks for the manual. Excellent.
I’m also using Virtualmin and I’m having issues with adding my custom versions to load in it.
When I try to use switch or use I always get the same error.
root@t1:~# phpbrew list
* (system)
php-7.0.0
php-5.6.10
root@t1:~# phpbrew switch php-5.6.10
Invalid argument php-5.6.10
can you advice?
it seems that the ‘php’ excess
try this:
phpbrew use 5.6.10
I know this website gives quality based content and additional material, is there any other
site which presents such things in quality?
Great post man!
Awesome stuff.
phpbrew self-update
# basic support
phpbrew install next as php-7.0.0
phpbrew use php-7.0.0
Great and useful post for sure. Especially for PHP lovers! 🙂