Can't install on Debian 12 Bookworm and on Debian 13 Trixie (Linux/ARM64)

[rfay]

What happened?

In Debian 13 Trixie (or Debian 12 Bookworm) ARM64 the install with deb packages fails:

docker run -it --rm debian:trixie and sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl then:

root@87c2d5b07b08:/# curl https://frankenphp.dev/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4172  100  4172    0     0  20848      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 20860
📦 Detected apt. Installing FrankenPHP from DEB repository...
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease
Get:4 https://deb.henderkes.com stable InRelease [2550 B]
Get:5 https://deb.henderkes.com stable/main arm64 Packages [20.3 kB]
Fetched 22.8 kB in 0s (91.3 kB/s)
14 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Solving dependencies... Error!
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:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 frankenphp : Depends: ld-linux-aarch64 (>= 2.17) but it is not installable
              Depends: libphp-zts-84.so
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
   Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
   1. frankenphp:arm64=1.9.1-1 is selected for install
   2. frankenphp:arm64 Depends ld-linux-aarch64 (>= 2.17)
      but none of the choices are installable:
      [no choices]

I tested with Trixie AMD64 and it works OK there.

Build Type

Standalone binary

Worker Mode

No

Operating System

GNU/Linux

CPU Architecture

aarch64

PHP configuration

Irrelevant, this is Debian packaging problem

Relevant log output

Failure shown above.

[henderkes]

Thanks for the report, will be automatically fixed in ~1:30h.

[henderkes]

Fixed https://github.com/static-php/spc-packages/actions/runs/19592621610/job/56112919797.

Edit: Please keep in mind that if you're using Docker, there's a frankenphp base image. FROM dunglas/frankenphp see https://frankenphp.dev/docs/docker/.

root@604e37493c3c:/# curl https://frankenphp.dev/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4172  100  4172    0     0   227k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  239k
📦 Detected apt. Installing FrankenPHP from DEB repository...
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease
Get:4 https://deb.henderkes.com stable InRelease [2550 B]
Get:5 https://deb.henderkes.com stable/main arm64 Packages [20.3 kB]
Fetched 20.3 kB in 0s (173 kB/s)
All packages are up to date.
Installing:
  frankenphp

Installing dependencies:
  php-zts-cli  php-zts-embed

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 3, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
  Download size: 32.8 MB
  Space needed: 116 MB / 36.5 GB available

Get:1 https://deb.henderkes.com stable/main arm64 php-zts-cli arm64 8.4.15-1 [10.0 MB]
Get:2 https://deb.henderkes.com stable/main arm64 php-zts-embed arm64 8.4.15-1 [9830 kB]
Get:3 https://deb.henderkes.com stable/main arm64 frankenphp arm64 1.9.1-1 [13.0 MB]
Fetched 32.8 MB in 0s (99.1 MB/s)
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 79, <STDIN> line 3.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 8, <STDIN> line 3.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Selecting previously unselected package php-zts-cli.
(Reading database ... 6997 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../php-zts-cli_8.4.15-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking php-zts-cli (8.4.15-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package php-zts-embed.
Preparing to unpack .../php-zts-embed_8.4.15-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking php-zts-embed (8.4.15-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package frankenphp.
Preparing to unpack .../frankenphp_1.9.1-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking frankenphp (1.9.1-1) ...
Setting up php-zts-cli (8.4.15-1) ...
Setting up php-zts-embed (8.4.15-1) ...
Setting up frankenphp (1.9.1-1) ...
useradd: warning: the home directory /var/lib/frankenphp already exists.
useradd: Not copying any file from skel directory into it.
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d returned 101, not running 'start frankenphp.service'
2025/11/22 09:36:37.924 INFO    maxprocs: Leaving GOMAXPROCS=4: CPU quota undefined
2025/11/22 09:36:37.924 INFO    GOMEMLIMIT is updated   {"package": "github.com/KimMachineGun/automemlimit/memlimit", "GOMEMLIMIT": 22631631667, "previous": 9223372036854775807}
2025/11/22 09:36:37.924 INFO    using config from file  {"file": "/dev/null"}
2025/11/22 09:36:37.925 INFO    admin   admin endpoint started  {"address": "localhost:2019", "enforce_origin": false, "origins": ["//[::1]:2019", "//127.0.0.1:2019", "//localhost:2019"]}
2025/11/22 09:36:37.926 INFO    serving initial configuration
2025/11/22 09:36:37.928 INFO    admin.api       received request        {"method": "GET", "host": "localhost:2019", "uri": "/pki/ca/local", "remote_ip": "127.0.0.1", "remote_port": "42830", "headers": {"Accept-Encoding":["gzip"],"Origin":["http://localhost:2019"],"User-Agent":["Go-http-client/1.1"]}}
2025/11/22 09:36:37.940 WARN    installing root certificate (you might be prompted for password)        {"path": "localhost:2019/pki/ca/local"}
2025/11/22 09:36:37.940 INFO    warning: "certutil" is not available, install "certutil" with "apt install libnss3-tools" or "yum install nss-tools" and try again
2025/11/22 09:36:37.940 INFO    define JAVA_HOME environment variable to use the Java trust
2025/11/22 09:36:38.711 INFO    certificate installed properly in linux trusts
2025/11/22 09:36:38.715 INFO    shutting down apps, then terminating    {"signal": "SIGTERM"}
2025/11/22 09:36:38.715 WARN    exiting; byeee!! 👋     {"signal": "SIGTERM"}
2025/11/22 09:36:38.715 INFO    admin   stopped previous server {"address": "localhost:2019"}
2025/11/22 09:36:38.715 INFO    shutdown complete       {"signal": "SIGTERM", "exit_code": 0}

🥳 FrankenPHP installed successfully.

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root@604e37493c3c:/# frankenphp -v
FrankenPHP v1.9.1 PHP 8.4 Caddy v2.10.2 h1:g/gTYjGMD0dec+UgMw8SnfmJ3I9+M2TdvoRL/Ovu6U8=

[rfay]

Thanks!