How To Install php7.4-readline on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-readline
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is php7.4-readline
php7.4-readline is:
This package provides the readline module(s) for PHP.
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-readline 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: 68 Provides: php-readline Depends: php-common (>= 1:73), ucf, php7.4-common (= 7.4.3-4ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libedit2 (>= 3.1-20160903-0) Filename: pool/main/p/php7.4/php7.4-readline_7.4.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 12616 MD5sum: 20cd80508dc15a73a0e1ef49895cbf36 SHA1: 0af2e174b8a93aa10bbbdc598a8a7461ebdd8a6b SHA256: abc2a8a02ed04770aa5c195b75871fa25068ad47f93673efea6f9084a98353df Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description-en: readline module for PHP This package provides the readline module(s) for PHP.
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-readline
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-readline 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-readline
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php7.4-readline
Install php7.4-readline Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php7.4-readline
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php7.4-readline
Install php7.4-readline 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-readline
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php7.4-readline
How To Uninstall php7.4-readline on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the php7.4-readline
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php7.4-readline
Uninstall php7.4-readline And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php7.4-readline
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-readline
Remove php7.4-readline Configurations and Data
To remove php7.4-readline
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php7.4-readline
Remove php7.4-readline configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php7.4-readline
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php7.4-readline
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-readline
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.