How to install PHP and other PHP libraries into Ubuntu for Laravel

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to install PHP libraries manually for Laravel.

Step 1: Run the following command to update apt-get itself.

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Next, install software-properties-common, which adds management for additional software sources: The -y flag will automatically agree to the installation. Without that, you would receive a prompt in your terminal window for each installation.

sudo apt -y install software-properties-common

Step 3: Next, install the repository ppa:ondrej/php, which will give you all your versions of PHP:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Step 4: Finally, you update apt-get again so your package manager can see the newly listed packages:

sudo apt-get update

Step 5: Now you’re ready to install PHP 7.4 using the following command:

sudo apt -y install php7.4

Step 6: Check the version installed:

php -v

Step 7: Check the version installed:

sudo apt-get install -y php7.4-cli php7.4-json php7.4-common php7.4-mysql php7.4-zip php7.4-gd php7.4-mbstring php7.4-curl php7.4-xml php7.4-bcmath

Step 6: This command will install the following modules:

php7.4-cli - command interpreter, useful for testing PHP scripts from a shell or performing general shell scripting tasks

php7.4-json - for working with JSON data

php7.4-common - documentation, examples, and common modules for PHP

php7.4-mysql - for working with MySQL databases

php7.4-zip - for working with compressed files

php7.4-gd - for working with images

php7.4-mbstring - used to manage non-ASCII strings

php7.4-curl - lets you make HTTP requests in PHP

php7.4-xml - for working with XML data

php7.4-bcmath - used when working with precision floats

PHP configurations related to Apache are stored in /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini. You can list all loaded PHP modules with the following command:

php -m

Finally, we have installed PHP and verified the version running.