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How to install zip in ubuntu?

Posted on January 12, 2017

I’m having this request error in the ubuntu script install ZIP Required ZIP extension for backuping data Not installed



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Hello, all

If you need zip/unzip you can use the following command:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install zip unzip

If you want to install it for PHP 7.4 as well use:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install php7.4-zip

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

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