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Unable to Install PHP Soap Extension on my Digital Ocean Droplet

Posted on March 30, 2018

I’m running a WordPress site and one of the plugins I’m using needs me to enable the PHP Soap Extension. However, I’m not able to enable it. I entered the command: sudo apt-get install php-soap after that I wrote “yes” for beginning the installation.

After writing “yes”, I got the list of errors which are mentioned below, from what I understand, it’s probably because of the mirrors not having the file. Is there something I’ve messed up with?

My website is Arabic Keyboard. It’s a tool which allows people to type in Arabic from the web and we’re working on something which would make the tool even better. Do you guys think I should shift to a different host? Sorry for the noob like questions, I’m not a power Linux terminal user.

Err:1 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/universe amd64 php7.0-soap amd64 7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
  404  Not Found
Err:2 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu yakkety/universe amd64 php-soap all 1:7.0+44
  404  Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/php7.0/php7.0-soap_7.0.18-0ubuntu0.16.10.1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/php-defaults/php-soap_7.0+44_all.deb  404  Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I tried getting in touch with the support, but it doesn’t seem to be helpful, it’s almost 24 hours.

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