Missing extension on installing Magento 2 on Ubuntu PHP 5.6

[dennischan]

Hope someone could give me idea.

I've been struggling on installing magento 2 on ubuntu 16 where php 5.6 is installed. It always warns extension intl and zip missing so the readiness check could not be passed.

My machine ubuntu 16 has php 7 by default installed but for a migration issue I must let the php 5.6 running. I checked Magento 2 can also supported by 5.6.

I have tried installing multiple versions php e.g. php 7.0.x also installed. I switched to php 7.0, the readiness check passed. However, my app on php 5.6 crashed.

I tried apt-get install php-intl & php-zip, it always installed for me php7.0 extension no matter my CLI php is 5.6 or 7.0, I checked that by php -v

I tried apt-get install php5.6-intl and php5.6-zip as someone suggested on Internet, it just failed with package not found.

Will you have any idea? Thanks in advance.

[Tom Robertshaw]

If php56-intl doesn't work. Can you try this instead:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-intl

What version of Magento are you trying to install. Up to Magento 2.1.x php 5.6 is supported. If you're installing Magento 2.2, then you will need to use a compatible version of PHP 7 http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/install-gde/system-requirements-tech.html

If you can share the commands that you're running and their exact output that would help. Thanks.

[dennischan]

Robert, thanks for your ideas.

# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20131226/intl.so' - /usr/lib/php/20131226/intl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20131226/zip.so' - /usr/lib/php/20131226/zip.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.6.31-1~ubuntu16.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.5.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2017, by Derick Rethans

# apt-get update

done without error

# apt-get install php-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php-intl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,920 B of archives.
After this operation, 11.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package php-intl.
(Reading database ... 103617 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../php-intl_1%3a7.0+44_all.deb ...
Unpacking php-intl (1:7.0+44) ...
Setting up php-intl (1:7.0+44) ...

>> strange it installed 7.0 stuff for me. I have remove php 7.0

# apt-get install php5-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php5-intl <------- error

# apt-get install php5.6-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-intl
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php5.6-intl'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php5.6-intl'

# apt-get install php56-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php56-intl

Done works other than php-intl, but that install php 7 for me.

The same for php-zip.

I installed Magento 2.1.9

[hemant_mittal]

Hi,

Edit your php.ini file and un-comment or add below extensions

extension=php_intl.dll

extension=php-zip.dll

Also check if these .dll files are present under "/php/ext" folder. If not you need to install them and keep these files under "ext" folder. 

Restart your PHP services and try to reinstall. The error will be resolved.

Hope this helps

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@bcsssw wrote:

Robert, thanks for your ideas.

# php -v
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20131226/intl.so' - /usr/lib/php/20131226/intl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20131226/zip.so' - /usr/lib/php/20131226/zip.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.6.31-1~ubuntu16.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.5.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2017, by Derick Rethans

# apt-get update

done without error

# apt-get install php-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php-intl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,920 B of archives.
After this operation, 11.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package php-intl.
(Reading database ... 103617 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../php-intl_1%3a7.0+44_all.deb ...
Unpacking php-intl (1:7.0+44) ...
Setting up php-intl (1:7.0+44) ...

>> strange it installed 7.0 stuff for me. I have remove php 7.0

# apt-get install php5-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php5-intl <------- error

# apt-get install php5.6-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-intl
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php5.6-intl'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php5.6-intl'

# apt-get install php56-intl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php56-intl

Done works other than php-intl, but that install php 7 for me.

The same for php-zip.

I installed Magento 2.1.9

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