How to Install and Uninstall php5.6 Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "php5.6" package

This tutorial shows how to install php5.6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                php5.6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "php5.6" package

Learn how to uninstall php5.6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                php5.6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the php5.6 package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: php5.6
Priority: optional
Section: php
Installed-Size: 286
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 5.6.40-57+ubuntu21.10.1+deb.sury.org+1
Provides: php
Depends: libapache2-mod-php5.6 | php5.6-fpm | php5.6-cgi, php5.6-common
Filename: pool/main/p/php5.6/php5.6_5.6.40-57+ubuntu21.10.1+deb.sury.org+1_all.deb
Size: 266818
MD5sum: 7a534ed11d92883e0ad52494fa17ef80
SHA1: e47adc7d313681b5aafb0bbd4fa3f7fc09c9fc75
SHA256: a8f7d3ce4186d1c2e452c52c6726ec857d6552b01783868870c3682f6fef4af0
Description-en: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees that you
have at least one of the four server-side versions of the PHP interpreter
installed. Removing this package won't remove PHP from your system, however
it may remove other packages that depend on this one.
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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: 86488d7a405bdcbac9ece7c307f30abb