Package php5 have no installation candidate (Ubuntu 16.04)

Question

When i try to install php5 in Ubuntu 16.04 by using following code:

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mcrypt

I get following error:

Answer 1

This worked for me.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ -y

;)

Answer 2

Currently, I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Me too was facing same problem while Fetching the Postgress Database values using Php so i resolved it by using the below commands.

Mine PHP version is 7.0, so i tried the below command.

apt-get install php-pgsql

Remember to restart Apache.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Answer 3

I recently had this issue as well and solved it using the following command:

sudo apt install php7.2-cli

php is now installed. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.

Answer 4

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP7 as the standard, so there are no PHP5 packages

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

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 modules too ..

Verify your version

sudo php -v

Based on https://askubuntu.com/a/756186/532957 (thanks @AhmedJerbi)

Answer 5

You must use prefix "php5.6-" instead of "php5-" as in ubuntu 14.04 and olders:

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

Answer 6

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

for php7.0 works well for me