Owncloud ubuntu package: php5 dependency #20963

Pegasuz · 2015-12-05T08:18:33Z

I am using the ubuntu 14.04 package on my server and would like to upgrade to php7 (currently using php5.6 mod_apache).
The owncloud-server package (version 8.2.1) however depends on php5.
So it is currently not possible to upgrade to php7.

RobinMcCorkell · 2015-12-05T10:27:05Z

cc @jnweiger

Akhenaton · 2015-12-06T09:03:08Z

:~$ apt-cache depends owncloud-server
owncloud-server
Dépend: php5
|Dépend: php5-mysqlnd
Dépend: php5-mysql
Dépend: php5-sqlite
Dépend: php5-pgsql
Dépend: php5-common
Dépend: php5-gd
Dépend: php-xml-parser
Dépend: php5-intl
Dépend: php5-mcrypt
Dépend: php5-curl
Dépend: php5-json
Dépend: php5-ldap
Dépend: php5-cli

You could add the redis mod

enoch85 · 2015-12-07T15:51:39Z

I have the same problem. One way to solve this could be: http://askubuntu.com/a/237354 But I have not tested that solution yet. If anyone does, please let me know how it went.

EDIT: Did not work.

jnweiger · 2015-12-07T16:46:29Z

sidenote: Redis is even difficult with php5: the ubuntu-14.04 php5-redis module is too old, they say:
http://www.kiloroot.com/a-guide-to-owncloud-8-ubuntu-14-04-and-caching-apcu-redis-cache-and-file-locking-oh-my/

enoch85 · 2015-12-07T17:19:29Z

@jnweiger That's why you have to build it: https://www.techandme.se/how-to-configure-redis-cache-in-ubuntu-14-04-with-owncloud/

pecl install works and provides 2.2.7

jnweiger · 2015-12-07T17:40:47Z

I've started somewhat. Feel free to improve: owncloud-archive/vm@252ddbd

enoch85 · 2015-12-07T17:44:41Z

@jnweiger If you want to install an old redis server version, that looks fine. 👍

jnweiger · 2015-12-07T17:49:55Z

It's a production system. Compilers should run elsewhere.

enoch85 · 2015-12-07T17:51:06Z

@jnweiger What about the original issue ---^ ?

RobinMcCorkell · 2015-12-07T19:22:15Z

Please don't add a dependency on php-redis on owncloud-server, at most it should be an optional dependency, definitely not required or recommended

karlitschek · 2015-12-07T19:23:07Z

Yes. This is optional and only important for big installations.

Akhenaton · 2015-12-07T21:34:01Z

Well, yes, i should have said "optional" or "recommended" only. I have Redis server v=3.0.5 here and it works like a charm with ownCloud.

enoch85 · 2015-12-08T16:53:51Z

FYI:

root@owncloud:/etc/redis# apt-mark hold owncloud owncloud-server owncloud-config-apache
owncloud set on hold.
owncloud-server set on hold.
owncloud-config-apache set on hold.
root@owncloud:/etc/redis# apt-get install php7.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 owncloud-server : Depends: php5 (>= 5.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-mysqlnd but it is not going to be installed or
                            php5-mysql but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-sqlite but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-pgsql but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-common but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-gd but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-intl but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-mcrypt but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-curl but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-json but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-ldap but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: php5-cli but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
root@owncloud:/etc/redis#

jnweiger · 2015-12-08T16:58:56Z

The correct solution is to have an owncloud package without any dependencies. this may be helpful with many other dependency issues too.
I'll add an experimental package owncloud-base to https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/8.2:/testing/owncloud-base

enoch85 · 2015-12-08T23:49:24Z

If you decide to go that path it has to be clear in the docs which php modules that are needed to make ownCloud run properly. cc @carlaschroder

enoch85 · 2015-12-09T00:18:49Z

Removed ownCloud (purged everything)
Deleted ownCloud dir inlcuding the data folder
Replaced owncloud.list with the new one.
Installed php7.0*

Actual result

root@owncloud:/# apt-get install owncloud-base 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 owncloud-base : Depends: php5-cgi but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@owncloud:/#

EDIT
Same error if I do a completely fresh install of a new OS and everything.

EDIT 2
It works if you install from archive and all the php-modules seperatly. I will fix a VM tomorrow with ownCloud 8.2.1 and PHP 7.

enoch85 · 2015-12-09T21:21:47Z

The VM is released, thought you would like to know: https://www.techandme.se/owncloud-8-2-1-php-7-redis-cache-lets-encrypt-webmin/

jospoortvliet · 2015-12-10T13:20:18Z

btw I just installed php 7 + all the needed php 7 modules on openSUSE 13.2. It overwrote a few files due to conflicts but otherwise, everything was smooth and worked after I removed apcu caching from the config.php. I still have php5 installed, will remove it once ownCloud-server won't also be removed ;-)

MrGraversen · 2015-12-15T15:27:15Z

Well, so much for "PHP 7 Is Here And ownCloud Is Ready"... any news on the issue?

enoch85 · 2015-12-15T16:07:38Z

@MrGraversen ownCloud works with PHP 7, just download the VM and give it a try. ;) You could get it working with ownCloud with some hacking in Ubuntu.

EDIT Something like:

Move your data and config to another location.
Purge ownCloud
Download the ownCloud zip or tar package, to avoid dependency issues
Purge PHP 5
Installl PHP 7 and needed dependencies: sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-pgsql php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-ldap php7.0-cli -y
Extract ownCloud and setup correct permissions

NOTE, NOT TESTED THIS METHOD. But it should work

enoch85 · 2015-12-23T23:33:50Z

@jnweiger Saw that the new 8.2.2 installed php5-cgi separately. Does this mean that the issue is addressed?

Akhenaton · 2015-12-24T10:24:06Z

No...
Do an "apt-cache depends owncloud-server" => Still depends PHP5-*** exclusively.
(I don't understand why this simple packaging issue has not been solved with the 8.2.2 release, i don't want to keep two PHP versions on my server)

MrGraversen · 2015-12-28T16:31:12Z

Any news on the issue...?

jospoortvliet · 2015-12-31T20:55:57Z

@MrGraversen right now, most people who work on this are on holiday. I'm sure there will be attention for this in the new year ;-)

webmarka · 2016-01-03T22:37:02Z

Got it working pretty easily using @enoch85 method on a Linux Mint 17.3 desktop. It's a basic install, I will keep testing with different configs and apps enabled too see if my favourites apps setup still work. If everything is good, next step will be to test it on a Ubuntu 14.04 server :) Yay!

Akhenaton · 2016-01-04T07:29:58Z

Look, we all know that it's working well... That's not the matter. The matter is a Linux packaging issue.

jospoortvliet · 2016-01-06T20:30:52Z

I believe the packages were updated to not handle dependencies at all... Not sure if that has already been applied fully, but it's a rather dirty solution to this problem.

What's going to happen with the packages is a tad unclear at the moment, we're not happy with the state either.

Akhenaton · 2016-01-07T09:55:08Z

I believe the packages were updated to not handle dependencies at all...

No, it hasn't been updated... Perhaps for the next 8.2.3 ?... in March 2016.... pfff

(In fact, i think that they know Owncloud is not fully compatible with PHP7, contrary what it is said. The "Sabre/Dav" part used in core is the culprit.)

see here : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sabredav-discuss/kHWTl4dT9jo

[quote]
"However, a problem is that we don't actually have a stable sabre/dav release right now that supports PHP 7."[endofquote]

enoch85 · 2016-01-07T11:58:36Z

@Akhenaton Just to be clear - ownCloud works with PHP 7. I've tested it, @jospoortvliet tested it - and I'm sure several others did to. I agree that the dependency issue is bad, but it's going to be solved.

enoch85 · 2016-04-05T11:45:39Z

As this will be released in 9.0.1 I will close this. Feel free to reopen if the issue presists.

enoch85 · 2016-04-07T23:13:02Z

This is still an issue: owncloud-archive/documentation#2222 (comment) cc @jnweiger

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:30:55Z

Hi, I used to have PHP 5.6.x on my server, but now I have PHP 7.0 and want to uninstall PHP 5.6 completely.
However, if I try to remove the PHP 5.6 packages, apt-get wants to uninstall owncloud and owncloud-server from my system. How do I uninstall PHP 5.6 while keeping PHP 7.0 and Owncloud 9.0.1?

The only package I could uninstall was libapache2-mod-php5 so there are at least no duplicate PHP modules for apache2 on my server anymore...

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T17:32:37Z

@arjanvlek Which OS do you run?

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:34:26Z

@enoch85 Debian 8.4

ghost · 2016-04-24T17:35:47Z

@arjanvlek apt-get install owncloud-deps-php7.0 && apt-get remove --purge owncloud-deps-php5

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T17:36:34Z

@arjanvlek Just mv the config data apps and theme folder outside of your install dir and purge owncloud completely. Then reinstall it and move back the folders.

@RealRancor beat me to it ;)

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:37:41Z

Sorry that it is in Dutch but this is what this command gives me:

De volgende pakketten hebben niet-voldane vereisten:
owncloud-deps-php7.0 : Vereisten: php7.0-mbstring maar het is niet installeerbaar
Vereisten: php7.0-xml maar het is niet installeerbaar
Vereisten: php7.0-zip maar het is niet installeerbaar

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T17:40:10Z

@arjanvlek What I wrote works anyway, I just did it on 7 servers myself today.

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:41:31Z

It misses some PHP7.0 packages on my server. From which repo did you get php7.0? I used dotDeb

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:42:58Z

@enoch85 Oh wow I see the apt-get command wasn't posted by you! Will try the other method and see if it works.

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T17:43:48Z

aptitude purge owncloud* -y
aptitude purge php5* -y
apt-get autoremove -y (I think it's apt-get on Debian)
aptitude install owncloud -y
and if it doesn't install the php 7 dependencies, then just;
aptitude install owncloud-deps-php7 -y

Done.

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:49:10Z

apt-get install owncloud immediately wants to install php5 packages again...
and that apt-get purge php5* -y command is dangerous as it also removes PHP7!!!

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T17:51:19Z

@arjanvlek If you know what you are doing you can just install PHP 7 again. Try to do a apt-get autoclean as well, and then restart apache, or the server. Sometimes the servers just don't listen to your commands and you have to force it. ;)

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T17:58:41Z

@enoch85 Yep I installed PHP7.0 and owncloud again. I found out that PHP7 support is incomplete with dotdeb and therefore owncloud-deps-php7 can't be installed due to missing packages. Therefore I'll leave php5 on my server until I find a better php7 repo. Any suggestions for a better php7 repo? Or wait until debian 9 which will include it in its default repos?

Anyway thanks for helping me.

enoch85 · 2016-04-24T18:01:33Z

@arjanvlek I use this on Debian: https://github.com/enoch85/ownCloud-VM/blob/master/debian/owncloud_install.sh#L190-214

Good luck.

arjanvlek · 2016-04-24T21:30:02Z

@enoch85 I got everything installed back and enabled php7 using this
command:

sudo a2dismod php5 && sudo a2enmod php7.0 && sudo service apache2 restart

The old packages didn't take up that much space and all works fine now.
Also enabled memcache using php7.0-apcu and works great!
Bye

PVince81 · 2016-10-10T16:22:28Z

Is this still an issue ?

@owncloud/packaging

MrGraversen · 2016-10-11T18:28:31Z

Personally, I eventually gave up using ownCloud altogether because this issue dragged on for several months. I think it is still an issue.

arjanvlek · 2016-10-11T18:38:01Z

I just left the php5 packages on the system and never looked back.
Furthermore, I disabled libapache2-mod-php5 and started using php7 only, both the CLI and Apache2 parts of it.
So: While owncloud 9.1.1 stable still "needs" php5 packages installed on Debian 8.5 32 bit, it is actually using php7 (due to libapache2-mod-php7.0 being turned on) and it is running just fine.

Vectrex · 2016-10-11T19:17:17Z

It is no longer a problem. For quite some time it was sufficient to install only the owncloud-files package from the official repository. Running it on Ubuntu 14.04.5 for a few months now without any problems.

crrodriguez · 2016-10-11T19:36:17Z

@Vectrex thanks for letting us to know.

arjanvlek · 2016-10-16T12:45:48Z

I confirm this issue is resolved.
All it took me to switch to the correct dependencies was this one-line command:
sudo apt remove owncloud-deps-php5 && sudo apt install owncloud-deps-php7.0
Afterwards I removed all remaining php5 packages, such as libapache2-mod-php5 and the base php5 packages. Thanks for fixing it :)

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Synchronizing small files = very slow #7072

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owncloud-deps-php7.0 must not depend on libapache2-mod-php7.0, but on php7.0 instead #25283

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Owncloud ubuntu package: php5 dependency #20963

Owncloud ubuntu package: php5 dependency #20963

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