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Php versions – Can't install php7.4-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

Trying to install php7.4-dev extension, but I’m getting

E: Unable to locate package php7.4-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.4-dev'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.4-dev'

When I run apt show php it displays the following:

Package: php
Version: 1:7.2+60ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: php
Source: php-defaults (60ubuntu1)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <[email protected]>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 12.3 kB
Depends: php7.2
Supported: 5y
Download-Size: 3,084 B
APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
 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.
 .
 This package is a dependency package, which depends on Ubuntu's default
 PHP version (currently 7.2).

I used the following commands to update the repository.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update

After running apt show php again, I received the same message as before, and the version remains unchanged, still showing PHP 7.2.

However, I consistently encounter the same result every time, and unfortunately, I’m unable to install php7.4-dev.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
apt show php

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  1. 0

    I was facing the same issue somehow ppa:ondrej/php is not working on Ubuntu 18.04. As mentioned in this article after adding following repositories I was able to install php7.4

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/php74
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/php7-modules
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/backports
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/packages
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  2. 0

    I am unable to install FPM using the above PPA can you help with this?

    Below is the error:

    sudo apt install php74p-fpm

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    php74p-fpm is already the newest version (7.4.33-0sergeyd6.1~18.04.1).
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
    2 not fully installed or removed.
    After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    Setting up php74-fpm (7.4.33-0sergeyd6.1~18.04.1) …
    update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/php74-fpm
    dpkg: error processing package php74-fpm (–configure):
    installed php74-fpm package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php74p-fpm:
    php74p-fpm depends on php74-fpm; however:
    Package php74-fpm is not configured yet.

    dpkg: error processing package php74p-fpm (–configure):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    php74-fpm
    php74p-fpm
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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