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How to install package if E: Unable to locate package php-mysql

Ubuntu node v4.2.1 on 14.04

$ sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done E: Unable to locate package php-fpm E: Unable to locate package php-mysql

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Ryan Quinn • October 3, 2016

@kosta is correct.

For Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql php5-mysql

On Ubuntu 16.04 you would instead use:

sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm php7.0-mysql;
yoquigua • September 14, 2019

hello, I have a vps with ubuntu 14.4 and I want to install php7, but I can’t find it, what can I do? Thanks in advance

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