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== Check available versions ==
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
gold@shipnet:~/$ apt-cache search php | sort | grep fpm
php7.4-fpm - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary)
php-fpm - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary) (default)
</syntaxhighlight>
If there are no php 8 options we need to add the repo and check again.
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
gold@shipnet:~/$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
</syntaxhighlight>
You will likely be challenged to install ppa:ondrej/apache2. We are not using mod-php so there is no need to do that.

To check php8 is available rerun the <syntaxhighlight lang=bash inline>apt-cache</syntaxhighlight> call above. You should see many more options.

=== Install PHP 7.4 and 8.1 ===
Testing on PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.1 so install the related supporting packages that Mahara needs. There is no <syntaxhighlight lang=bash inline>php8.1-json</syntaxhighlight> package. This is part of <syntaxhighlight lang=bash inline>php8.1-common</syntaxhighlight> now.
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
gold@shipnet:~/$ sudo apt install \
  php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-curl php7.4-gd \
  php7.4-json php7.4-ldap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-pgsql  \
  php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-zip \
  php8.1-cli php8.1-common php8.1-curl php8.1-gd \
  php8.1-ldap php8.1-mbstring php8.1-pgsql php8.1-xml \
  php8.1-xmlrpc php8.1-zip 
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