How do I install the ext-curl extension with PHP 7?

Question

I\'ve installed PHP 7 using this repo, but when I try to run composer install, it\'s giving this error:

• [package] requires ext-cu

Answer 1

If You have 404 or errors while sudo apt-get install php-curl just try

sudo apt-get update

and again try

sudo apt-get install php-curl

But notice what version was installed (i use php7.3 and php7.4-curl was installed - so it will not work)

try then

sudo apt-get install php7.3-curl

At the end You may want to restart services like: apache2 or php-fpm:

sudo apache2 restart
sudo service php7.3-fpm restart

this worked for me.

Check if curl is on the installed modules list for current php:

php -m

Answer 2

I got an error that the CURL extension was missing whilst installing WebMail Lite 8 on WAMP (so on Windows).

After reading that libeay32.dll was required which was only present in some of the PHP installation folders (such as 7.1.26), I switched the PHP version in use from 7.2.14 to 7.1.26 in the WAMP PHP version menu, and the error went away.

Answer 3

If "sudo apt-get install php-curl" command doesnt work and display error We should run this code before install curl.

• step1 - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
• step2 - sudo apt-get update
• step3 - sudo apt-get install php-curl
• step4 - sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 4

Try it if you get E: Unable to locate package {packageName}

sudo add-apt-repository main
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository restricted
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php-curl

Answer 5

install php70w-common.

It provides php-api, php-bz2, php-calendar, php-ctype, php-curl, php-date, php-exif, php-fileinfo, php-filter, php-ftp, php-gettext, php-gmp, php-hash, php-iconv, php-json, php-libxml, php-openssl, php-pcre, php-pecl-Fileinfo, php-pecl-phar, php-pecl-zip, php-reflection, php-session, php-shmop, php-simplexml, php-sockets, php-spl, php-tokenizer, php-zend-abi, php-zip, php-zlib.

https://webtatic.com/packages/php70/

Answer 6

Well I was able to install it by :

sudo apt-get install php-curl

on my system. This will install a dependency package, which depends on the default php version.

After that restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart