To install PHP 8.0 on Ubuntu 22.04, you can follow these steps:
Step 1 : Update the package list:
sudo apt update
Step 2 : Install the software-properties-common package to manage PPA repositories:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
Step 3 : Add the Ondřej Surý's PHP PPA repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Step 4 : Update the package list to include the new repository:
sudo apt update
Step 5 : Install PHP 8.0 and necessary packages:
sudo apt install php8.0 php8.0-cli php8.0-fpm
Step 6 : Install the extensions you requested:
sudo apt install php8.0-{mysql,curl,xsl,gd,common,xml,zip,xsl,soap,bcmath,mbstring,gettext,imagick}
Now, let's briefly explain each of these extensions:
- php8.0-mysql: Allows PHP to communicate with MySQL databases, enabling interaction and manipulation of MySQL databases from your PHP scripts.
- php8.0-curl: Provides functions for making HTTP requests to other servers, allowing your application to interact with external APIs, fetch remote data, and perform various network-related tasks.
- php8.0-xsl: Enables processing and transformation of XML documents using the XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) standard.
- php8.0-gd: Enables PHP to work with images, offering functions for creating, manipulating, and rendering images in various formats (e.g., JPEG, PNG, GIF).
- php8.0-common: Includes files shared between the PHP modules, providing common functionalities and utilities that other PHP modules might depend on.
- php8.0-xml: Provides tools for working with XML (eXtensible Markup Language), including parsing and generating XML documents.
- php8.0-zip: Offers functions for creating, reading, and extracting ZIP archives, useful for handling compressed files and archives in your PHP applications.
- php8.0-soap: Enables the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), allowing communication between applications over various protocols.
- php8.0-bcmath: Provides arbitrary precision arithmetic functions, allowing precise mathematical operations, particularly useful for cryptography and financial calculations.
- php8.0-mbstring: Supports multibyte encodings, essential for working with non-ASCII characters and languages that use multibyte character sets (e.g., UTF-8).
- php8.0-gettext: Provides internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) support, allowing you to internationalize your PHP applications.
- php8.0-imagick: Offers a PHP wrapper for the ImageMagick library, enabling advanced image manipulation and processing.
Step 7 : Check Installed PHP Version
After installation, you can check the PHP version with the following command:
php -v
That's it! You've successfully installed PHP 8.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.
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