How to Install and Uninstall libapache2-mod-php5.6 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 20,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libapache2-mod-php5.6 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libapache2-mod-php5.6" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libapache2-mod-php5.6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "libapache2-mod-php5.6" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libapache2-mod-php5.6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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3. Information about the libapache2-mod-php5.6 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libapache2-mod-php5.6
Source: php5.6
Version: 5.6.40-68+0~20230902.80+debian12~1.gbpa2012b
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers
Installed-Size: 4316
Depends: libmagic1, libpcre3 (>= 2:8.41), media-types | mime-support, php5.6-cli, php5.6-common (= 5.6.40-68+0~20230902.80+debian12~1.gbpa2012b), php5.6-json, php5.6-opcache, tzdata, ucf, apache2-api-20120211, apache2-bin (>= 2.4.16), libc6 (>= 2.35), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libxml2 (>= 2.8.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: apache2
Suggests: php-pear
Provides: libapache2-mod-php, phpapi-20131226
Homepage: http://www.php.net/
Priority: optional
Section: httpd
Filename: pool/main/p/php5.6/libapache2-mod-php5.6_5.6.40-68+0~20230902.80+debian12~1.gbpa2012b_amd64.deb
Size: 1234388
SHA256: 54138e29fb564554e6703698890e15483ebc2f866022375587557d6c3b4a6913
SHA1: c2f879022800571b2b023773a58f9f1fa99e0423
MD5sum: 0f3dac232410744df40b2d8f3dbdadd8
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)
This package provides the PHP module for the Apache 2 webserver (as
found in the apache2-mpm-prefork package). Please note that this package
ONLY works with Apache's prefork MPM, as it is not compiled thread-safe.
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The following extensions are built in: Core date ereg filter hash libxml
mhash openssl pcre Reflection session SPL standard zlib.
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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.
Description-md5: 98f0ba0078ba49c540575971f6fbdbc6