How To Install php7.4-soap on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-soap on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is php7.4-soap
php7.4-soap is:
This package provides the SOAP 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.
Package: php7.4-soap Architecture: amd64 Version: 7.4.3-4ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/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: 344 Provides: php-soap Depends: php-common (>= 1:73), ucf, php7.4-common (= 7.4.3-4ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) Filename: pool/universe/p/php7.4/php7.4-soap_7.4.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 114912 MD5sum: 7424e1715aed9677697984e80a336ac1 SHA1: e7809575428ef49a64a9d1d7f4daf56233ddab84 SHA256: 6b315a0b3818c7fce55b8f79765c18401a27c7a5ba0d933efa8c3f719d0da679 Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description-en: SOAP module for PHP This package provides the SOAP 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.
There are three methods to install php7.4-soap 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-soap 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-soap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install php7.4-soap
Install php7.4-soap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install php7.4-soap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install php7.4-soap
Install php7.4-soap 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-soap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install php7.4-soap
How To Uninstall php7.4-soap on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the php7.4-soap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove php7.4-soap
Uninstall php7.4-soap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall php7.4-soap 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-soap
Remove php7.4-soap Configurations and Data
To remove php7.4-soap configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge php7.4-soap
Remove php7.4-soap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove php7.4-soap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php7.4-soap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install php7.4-soap package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.