Co-installable PHP versions: PHP 5.6, PHP 7.x and most requested extensions are included. Only Supported Versions of PHP (http://php.net/supported-versions.php) for Supported Ubuntu Releases (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases) are provided. Don't ask for end-of-life PHP versions or Ubuntu release, they won't be provided.
Debian oldstable and stable packages are provided as well: https://deb.sury.org/#debian-dpa
You can get more information about the packages at https://deb.sury.org
IMPORTANT: The <foo>-backports is now required on older Ubuntu releases.
BUGS&FEATURES: This PPA now has a issue tracker:
https://deb.sury.org/#bug-reporting
CAVEATS:
1. If you are using php-gearman, you need to add ppa:ondrej/pkg-gearman
2. If you are using apache2, you are advised to add ppa:ondrej/apache2
3. If you are using nginx, you are advised to add ppa:ondrej/nginx-mainline
or ppa:ondrej/nginx
Step 2 : Update the system
sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Check php versions available
sudo apt show php
Output :
Package: php
Version: 2:8.0+84+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Priority: optional
Section: php
Source: php-defaults (84+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <team+pkg-php@tracker.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 13.3 kB
Depends: php8.0
Download-Size: 6960 B
APT-Sources: http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used
open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited
for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on latest stable
PHP version (currently 8.0).
Package: php
Version: 2:7.4+75
Priority: optional
Section: php
Source: php-defaults (75)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <team+pkg-php@tracker.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 13.3 kB
Depends: php7.4
Download-Size: 2712 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ap-south-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used
open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited
for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on latest stable
PHP version (currently 7.4).
Now, we have installed multiple versions of php but at a time we can use one so let’s choose one PHP version
Step 1 : To check available versions of PHP
sudo update-alternatives --config php
Output:
There are 2 choices for the alternative php (providing /usr/bin/php).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/php7.4 74 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/php7.0 70 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/php7.4 74 manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
Enter the number and you have successfully changed the version of PHP.
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