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how install or enabled php-zip and php-xml

Posted October 23, 2019 5.3k views
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i have my droplet with ubuntu 18.10 and php 5.6. I need install php-zip and php-xml, when i run apt-get install php-zip or apt-get install php-xml, i get “php-zip is already installed” but php -m dont show. If enable extension=zip.so i get “unable to load library”. How i get php-zip an php-xml? thanks.

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KDSys October 23, 2019

Hi @arcano162a0753f8ba1074e549,

You can install the php extensions like the following

sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip php5.6-xml

In fact you can install any PHP extension using the command above.

Please make sure you’ve ran 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Beforehand.

Regards,
KDSys

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  • arcano162a0753f8ba1074e549 October 25, 2019

    This options aren’t availables.
    When i run apt-get install php5.6-zip php5.6-xml the response is: Unable to locate package php5.6-zip and when i run apt-get install php-zip the response is: php-zip is already the newest version. But no is visible in php -m and software not found.
    Apparently is installed a php7.3 version not php5.6 version, but php5.6 not found

    Thanks you

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    • KDSys October 25, 2019

      Hi @arcano162a0753f8ba1074e549,

      You might have multiple PHP installations available.

      Can you please first type in 

      php -v

      In your terminal to see which php version are you using.

      Then please enter the following

      whereis php

      This will show you all the directories where php will be found.

      Regards,
      KDSys

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      • arcano162a0753f8ba1074e549 October 28, 2019

        Thanks for your response.

        php -v

        PHP 5.6.40-5+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) and 

        whereis php

        php: /usr/bin/php /usr/bin/php5.6 /usr/lib/php /etc/php /usr/share/php7.3-common /usr/share/php7.3-mbstring /usr/share/php7.3-mysql /usr/share/php5.6-mysql /usr/share/php7.3-bz2 /usr/share/php5.6-mbstring /usr/share/php7.3-zip /usr/share/php7.3-gd /usr/share/php7.2-zip /usr/share/php5.6-gd /usr/share/php /usr/share/php5.6-common /usr/share/php5.6-readline /usr/share/php5.6-mcrypt /usr/share/php7.2-common /usr/share/php7.3-xml /usr/share/php7.3-curl /usr/share/php5.6-opcache /usr/share/php5.6-json /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

        what should I do ?

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        • KDSys October 29, 2019

          Hi @arcano162a0753f8ba1074e549,

          This seems very odd and you indeed seem to have two PHP versions.

          Supposedly /usr/bin/php and /usr/bin/php5.6 should be the same thing but if you try

          /usr/bin/php5.6 -m | grep zip

          Does the extension actually appear?

          Usually, the following works

          sudo apt-get install php-zip

          or

          sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip

          Unless you’ve been checking the wrong php version from the command line and the extension is indeed there.

          Regards,
          KDSys

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