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How to upgrade from PHP v.5.5.9 to v.5.6

Posted on September 30, 2014

By stuehler

I just deployed a new droplet. By default, it’s set up with PHP 5.5.9. I would like to upgrade that to v.5.6.

How do I do this?

Thanks in advance.

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sdwarwick

September 12, 2015

note that if you are using NGINX and not Apache, this needs to be changed to avoid apache being loaded as part of the install. According to the maintainer of the ppa, the correct approach is to replace

sudo apt-get install php5

with

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-fpm

in the provided sequence of commands

ajbird4

August 7, 2016

I have followed this guide but seem to have run into problems:

I did the following:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install php5.6

Now what seems to have happened is when I check phpinfo.php it is using 5.5.9 but the cli is using 5.6.24

When I use composer install, It seems all my extensions (intl, mbstring, zip etc…) are not installed. I am a bit lost and would really appreciate any advice :-)

Thanks

Aaron

toimisto

June 26, 2017

I followed your instructions but keep getting E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php5.6’

How to fix this?

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