Cannot install php 7.2 on Raspbian

Question

I cannot install php 7.2 on Raspbian. I used the last Raspbian (Release date : 2017-11-29) with a Debian Stretch 9.1 : https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

I followed the instructions from https://www.colinodell.com/blog/2016-12/installing-php-7-1 :

apt-get install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates
wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
apt-get update

But when I try

apt-get install -y php7.2

A get the below errors :

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# apt-get install -y php7.2
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:
 php7.2 : Depends: libapache2-mod-php7.2 but it is not installable or
               php7.2-fpm but it is not installable or
               php7.2-cgi but it is not installable
      Depends: php7.2-common but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Someone can help me ? Thanks a lot

Solution 1

I found the reason, the package php7.1 and php7.2 isn't in the stretch repo :(.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/70388/how-to-install-php-7-1

Have to wait an update ...

Solution 2

Please check this GitHub issue: https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/579

It seems that Debian packages for newer PHP versions are not yet released for the ARM architecture. I would like to contribute for building such packages, but there is no activity on the issue after my last post.

An option to install PHP7.1 or newer would be to compile and install it yourself. For some examples, you may want to check http://yoestuve.es/blog/compile-php-7-for-raspberry-pi-with-memcached/. I would also suggest to use checkinstall instead of make install in order to facilitate easier uninstallation later.

Comments

[Gui-Don]

Is this repository providing ARM binaries? I’m not sure, this might be why you can’t install it.

[Gui-Don]

EDIT: apparently it does. Did you check lsb_release -sc returned “stretch”? Does apt-get update downloaded this repo too?

[dicotout]

Yes, it return "Stretch".

[Gui-Don]

Can you retry install php7.1 at least? sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install php7.1

[dicotout]

The result is unfortunatly the same : The following packages have unmet dependencies: php7.1 : Depends: libapache2-mod-php7.1 but it is not installable or php7.1-fpm but it is not installable or php7.1-cgi but it is not installable Depends: php7.1-common but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Gui-Don]

That’s exactly why you added the https://packages.sury.org/php/ repo. As a result, apt should download php from the sury.org repository, not the (default) stretch one. I installed php7.1 on stretch several times (also it’s very likely php will stay at 7.0 during the whole stretch life).

[Kaspars Foigts]

For stretch there are only php7.1 and php7.1-xsl. Same for 7.2 within sury.org repo.