How to update php7.2 to php7.4

In this post, we will be discussing the steps to upgrade your PHP version from 7.2 to 7.4.This post will provide you with the steps required to smoothly upgrade your PHP installation to version 7.4.

First thing let us check the current php version through the below command :

php -v

and the below message will appear:

PHP 7.2.34

We will add the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install php7.4

Then we will start installing the following pacakages:

sudo apt install php7.4-common

sudo apt install php7.4-cli

sudo apt install php7.4-bz2

sudo apt install php7.4-curl

sudo apt install php7.4-gd

sudo apt install php7.4-intl

sudo apt install php7.4-json

sudo apt install php7.4-mbstring

sudo apt install php7.4-readline

sudo apt install php7.4-xml

sudo apt install php7.4-zip

sudo apt install php7.4-fpm

sudo apt install php7.4-cgi

sudo apt install php7.4-imap

sudo apt install php7.4-ldap

sudo apt install php7.4-mysql

sudo apt install php7.4-opcache

sudo apt install php7.4-pspell

sudo apt install php7.4-soap

sudo apt install php7.4-tidy

sudo apt install php7.4-xmlrpc

After installing all the above packages, let us disable the old version and enable the updating version of php using the below commands:

sudo a2dismod php7.2

sudo a2enmod php7.4

sudo service apache2 restart

Congratulations, now you have php7.4 , you can check the php version through this command:

php -v