How to install php-curl in Ubuntu 16.04

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Solution 1

In Ubuntu 16.04 default PHP version is 7.0, if you want to use different version then you need to install PHP package according to PHP version:

PHP 7.4: sudo apt-get install php7.4-curl
PHP 7.3: sudo apt-get install php7.3-curl
PHP 7.2: sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl
PHP 7.1: sudo apt-get install php7.1-curl
PHP 7.0: sudo apt-get install php7.0-curl
PHP 5.6: sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl
PHP 5.5: sudo apt-get install php5.5-curl

Solution 2

This worked for me.

sudo apt-get install php-curl

Solution 3

This works for me:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl

Solution 4

Do:

apt-get update

And then:

apt-get install php5-curl

Solution 5

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install php8.0-curl

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Updated on March 13, 2021

Comments

Govind Samrow about 3 years
Upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and facing problem after installing PHP5.

Installed PHP-5 with following:
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install php5.5   # for PHP 5.5
```
Trying to install php-curl but its not working.
```
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
```
Error: E: Unable to locate package php5-curl
- I wrestled a bear once. over 7 years
  
  are you sure it's not installedand not just disabled? use php5enmod command to enable it.
- Blue over 7 years
  
  Is there a reason why you need to use php 5.5? It's reached it's end of life, and is no longer supported (There are many security issues)
- Govind Samrow over 7 years
  
  @frankerZ My projects not working under PHP7
- Blue over 7 years
  
  Are these huge projects? I think you should lean toward making your projects work in the latest version, then installing an old php to support this project.
- Govind Samrow over 7 years
  
  I've 15-20 projects on local and live servers not in my hand
Yankee over 7 years

Yes, this works without having to specify a PHP version if the user doesn't know it.
Riz about 7 years

Worked for me too on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 16
ShadowZzz over 6 years

For me, this was exactly the case. Had PHP 7 installed and kept getting Package 'php5-curl' has no installation candidate. Running sudo apt-get install php-curl fixed the problem
Davinder Kumar over 6 years

yeah, it Works.
little tiny man over 6 years

use php -version to find out what version of PHP you're on
GTodorov over 5 years

Perfect, but how do you fix libcurl issues with PHP 7.2 (needs libcurl4) and Percona MySQL 5.7 (needs libcurl3)?
Juyal Jee over 5 years

@ShadowZzz yes, your suggestion worked for me as well.
Jakob Alexander Eichler over 5 years

It seems, that these versions are no longer part of ubuntu 18.10
elfTine over 5 years

Hey, Thanks a lot!! You save me :)