So I am on an Ubuntu server at Digitalocean and I’m trying to install/configure Tidy HTML5 with my current PHP7 Wordpress installation and W3 Total Cache.
However even though I’ve installed Tidy with the following commands:
sudo apt-get remove libtidy-0.99-0 tidy -y
sudo wget -O /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb http://binaries.html-tidy.org/binaries/tidy-5.2.0/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
sudo rm /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
And it even says that it is at Version 5.2.0, yet it doesn’t seem to be loaded/installed.
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc/php/7.0/cli
Loaded Configuration File: /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed: /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/15-xml.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-apcu.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-bz2.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-curl.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-dom.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gd.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gmp.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-mbstring.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-pspell.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-recode.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-simplexml.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-soap.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-wddx.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-xmlreader.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-xmlrpc.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-xmlwriter.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-xsl.ini,
/etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-zip.ini
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ tidy -v
HTML Tidy for Linux version 5.2.0
Am I missing something here? Or doesn’t HTML Tidy work with PHP7? Because I’ve installed HTML Tidy with the above mentioned commands without any problem on a PHP5.6 installation just fine recently.
Either way thanks for any suggestions or information.
Edit:
I’ve removed Tidy completely, installed the original from 2009, still not detected, then removed it again and installed the latest version again but yet again it’s still not being detected:
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo apt-get install tidy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
tidy is already the newest version (20091223cvs-1.5).
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tidy : Depends: libtidy-0.99-0 (>= 20091223cvs-1.5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libtidy-0.99-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libtidy-0.99-0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/120 kB of archives.
After this operation, 419 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 120416 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libtidy-0.99-0_20091223cvs-1.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libtidy-0.99-0 (20091223cvs-1.5) ...
Setting up libtidy-0.99-0 (20091223cvs-1.5) ...
Setting up tidy (20091223cvs-1.5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo apt-get -y autoremove tidy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libtidy-0.99-0 tidy
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
After this operation, 505 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 120421 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tidy (20091223cvs-1.5) ...
Removing libtidy-0.99-0 (20091223cvs-1.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo wget -O /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb http://binaries.html-tidy.org/binaries/tidy-5.2.0/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
--2017-02-22 20:15:50-- http://binaries.html-tidy.org/binaries/tidy-5.2.0/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
Resolving binaries.html-tidy.org (binaries.html-tidy.org)... 151.101.64.133, 151.101.128.133, 151.101.192.133, ...
Connecting to binaries.html-tidy.org (binaries.html-tidy.org)|151.101.64.133|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 727594 (711K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb’
/tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb 100%[==============================================>] 710.54K --.-KB/s in 0.007s
2017-02-22 20:15:50 (100 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb’ saved [727594/727594]
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
Selecting previously unselected package tidy.
(Reading database ... 120410 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb ...
Unpacking tidy (5.2.0) ...
Setting up tidy (5.2.0) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo rm /tmp/tidy-5.2.0-64bit.deb
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ tidy -v
HTML Tidy for Linux version 5.2.0
rafael@wordpress-staging:~$ sudo service apache2 restart
Am I really missing something here? Or could someone explain to me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
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Within the default repositories for Ubuntu 16.04.x-16.10.x there’s already a package called php7.0-tidy which can be installed to enable HTML Tidy.
To confirm whether this package exists or not:
apt-cache search php7.0-tidy
Then:
apt-get -y install php7.0-tidy
Alternatively, if you’d like to use PHP 7.1.x, you can add that repository using the command below. You’d want to apt-get -y remove php7* before you do the below just to remove any existing 7.0 packages, then you can reinstall after updating.
If you to remove all packages + configuration you can use apt-get -y purge php7.
To add the PHP 7.1 repository:
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php
Update/Sync Packages:
apt-get update
Install PHP 7.1:
apt-get -y install php7.1 php7.1-dev php7.1-cli php7.1-tidy ...
Where ... is additional packages that you need and can find by running:
apt-cache search php7.1 --names-only
