How To Install php7.4-cli on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-cli
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is php7.4-cli
php7.4-cli is:
This package provides the /usr/bin/php7.4 command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell or performing general shell scripting tasks.
The following extensions are built in: Core date filter hash libxml openssl pcntl pcre Reflection session sodium SPL standard zlib.
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. Task: lamp-server
Package: php7.4-cli Architecture: amd64 Version: 7.4.3-4ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: php Source: php7.4 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 4715 Provides: php-cli, phpapi-20190902 Depends: libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-4), libmagic1, mime-support, php7.4-common (= 7.4.3-4ubuntu1), php7.4-json, php7.4-opcache, php7.4-readline, tzdata, ucf, libargon2-1 (>= 0~20171227), libc6 (>= 2.29), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32), libsodium23 (>= 1.0.14), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.8.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: php-pear Filename: pool/main/p/php7.4/php7.4-cli_7.4.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1421432 MD5sum: 97cf6f82e85e818b0aa97ac39ea47c38 SHA1: 72facf857b76f42140b2001389666e3937cb0f52 SHA256: 1fb76cdd4ca7e7ee47e8bc4ae61f5cfe047f904f3343cc2174af477cc4e10d94 Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description-en: command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language This package provides the /usr/bin/php7.4 command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell or performing general shell scripting tasks.
The following extensions are built in: Core date filter hash libxml openssl pcntl pcre Reflection session sodium SPL standard zlib.
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. Task: lamp-server
There are three methods to install php7.4-cli
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install php7.4-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install php7.4-cli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php7.4-cli
Install php7.4-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php7.4-cli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php7.4-cli
Install php7.4-cli Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install php7.4-cli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php7.4-cli
How To Uninstall php7.4-cli on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the php7.4-cli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php7.4-cli
Uninstall php7.4-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php7.4-cli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove php7.4-cli
Remove php7.4-cli Configurations and Data
To remove php7.4-cli
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php7.4-cli
Remove php7.4-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php7.4-cli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php7.4-cli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-cli
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.