Unable to locate package php8.0, bug in installing php8 in ubuntu [closed]

I've Ubuntu 16.04, and I ran the below command

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 

The final result looks like this:

 Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp94jbo60i/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp94jbo60i/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmp94jbo60i/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) OK 

then I run this:

sudo apt-get update 

The result of this command is:

 Get:1 xenial-security InRelease [109 kB] Hit:2 xenial InRelease Get:3 xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] Hit:4 xenial-infra-security InRelease Hit:5 xenial-infra-updates InRelease Get:6 xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB] Hit:7 xenial InRelease Hit:8 xenial InRelease 

and then I run this code to install php8.0:

sudo apt install php8.0-fpm libapache2-mod-fcgid 

It always returns:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package php8.0-fpm E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php8.0-fpm' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php8.0-fpm' 

I highly appreciate it if anyone knows and shares the solution.

1 Answer

Since php 5.something fpm is part of the core php, not a separate package. So if you have installed php8.0 then you should just need to enable it (probably sudo a2enconf php8.0-fpm but I am only guessing here).

If you look at the package details for the repository you added you can see what is in the php8.0 package: