PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[joshtronic]

Just wanted to check in, I'm having great success with 5.6 on 14.04 LTS but when I attempt the same upgrade route on a 12.04 LTS system (clean install) I can't seem to get 5.6 installed, it sticks with 5.3. I am able to get 5.5 installed on 12.04 LTS though.

I browsed the blog but didn't see anything about support being dropped on 12.04 LTS so if I missed it, please pardon this ticket.

Thanks, love the project!

[jails]

Same for me, looks like only ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable && ppa:ondrej/php5 works with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6 is completly ignored by 12.04 LTS since the first PHP 5.6 beta release.

[oerdnj]

@joshtronic @jails: Backporting PHP 5.5 and PHP 5.6 to 12.04 LTS also needs whole apache2.4 backport. Are you sure you can't upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

[joshtronic]

That actually brings up something interesting. I actually don't use apache (nginx + php-fpm) so it wouldn't bother me to not have apache2.4. I've wondered for a while, how come apache has been a dependency of this project?

To answer why I can't upgrade, it's not that I can't, I've simply been able to get the latest software that I needed by way of PPA ;)

[jails]

PHP 5.5 works fine with 12.04 LTS but the PHP 5.6 version seems to not be "detected" by apt. So yeah it's probably a dependency issue.

[oerdnj]

It's not a "dependency" issue, I simply do not build php5-5.6 for precise.

All php5 SAPIs are built in one go and thus the build needs all rev-deps installed. Apache 2.4 package has changes the supporting infrastructure for apache modules so it would be a great PITA ro backport the packages back to apache 2.2.

[jails]

Oh ok thanks for the clarification !

[joshtronic]

Understood, closing.

[oerdnj]

I'll keep it open for now, if more people will request php5.6 for Ubuntu Precise, I will make the effort.

[dhrrgn]

Just throwing my 2-cents in here. We have a fair amount of production servers running 12.04, and upgrading them, while possible, will require a ton of work. I understand it is a lot of work for you to backport the packages. However, 12.04 is an LTS with support until 2017. I know it would be a HUGE PITA to keep backporting things, but I think supporting 5.6, then dropping it for the next major release (7.0.0) would be ideal.

[danez]

We also maintain a lot of servers with 12.04, and would love to have php 5.6.

[koesie10]

I'm also running a few servers with 12.04 and I'd love to have 5.6.

[joshtronic]

Just donated 100€ to the project and posted about it on my blog. Hoping my community can influence moving forward with this :) 👍

[codex73]

👍 definitely will be good to have. I run many servers on 12.04 LTS at work and off. Even for development or testing sounds something that should be resolved, documented.

[oerdnj]

Ok, thank you all for your comments and your support. I will look into backporting php5.6 for 12.04 LTS.

[oerdnj]

JFTR You also might be interested in this: #15

[oerdnj]

Hey guys, just an update - the php5-5.6 repository should have a version for precise in couple of minutes (when buildds finish their work).
I got stuck by too low version libbsd that prevented libedit backport that prevented php5 build :).

php5 on i386 is building right now and amd64 should follow shortly after libedit is built. Once we are there we can bootstrap dh-php5 and thus php-json. That should complete the basic support. Feel free to ask to add more apache2 and php5 modules, or else I will add them as I have a time...

[joshtronic]

@oerdnj Just installed it myself, worked like a charm.

Thank you again for all of your hard work on this project!

[oerdnj]

@joshtronic and rest -- Feel free to request additional PHP and/or Apache 2 modules in separate issues as you need them.

[smaboshe]

I'm having challenges installing php5-cli from the PPAs for PHP 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04. Ideally, I'd like to install PHP 5.6.

Has support for Ubuntu 12.04 been dropped since #13 (comment)?

Thanks!

[oerdnj]

@smaboshe Please expand "I'm having challenges" - and better start a new issue for that...

[smaboshe]

@oerdnj Will do!

[smaboshe]

@oerdnj While trying to document my "challenges" to submit a new issue, I re-installed PHP 5.6. I did not have any problems this time around. I suspect my APT package list was out of sync and out of date.

Thank you.