APCu+Redis for PHP 7.1 on Debian / armhf

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Hey there,

am I right that there is not yet a PHP7.1 package of APCu and Redis for Debian/Raspbian armhf?

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 with current raspbian jessie and backport+stretch repos for PHP7.0. PHP7.1 do I find on some 3rd party repo with jessie-backports, but I did not yet find APCu/Redis for this :confused:. If somebody knows a way to upgrade my system, I would appreciate.

€: A share, I still do not see php7.1-apcu nor php7.1-redis on any Debian repository :frowning:.

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Do you really need php 7.1? And then on armhf? There is a FreeBSD version for arm devices, or directly use archlinux, they ship newer php packages by default (better supported).

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Hehe no not ‘need’ indeed, but I would love to stay at/try newest versions. Just wondering why it takes so long, not even on sid repo it is present, where on ubuntu it is already stable, as far as I know.

Thx for OS distro hints, but I want to stick with debian/raspbian for several reasons. Just checked archlinux, quite a nice approach, but as far as I see, php-redis is not available there at all e.g. :slight_smile:.

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You should ask this the debian community. But they are not focused on the newest software versions.

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Did you try to install apcu from source in pi?
apcu sources
Use phpize command to install this extension

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Good idea, I will try this. Sounds easy with php7.1-dev => phpize.
Exists also for redis: https://pecl.php.net/package/redis

Yeah will close this. I guess there is not more possible than waiting, getting some information from debian community or using the sources. Latter seems quite easy, so I will mark this as solution :slight_smile:.

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An easier way would be using deb.sury.org which provides armhf packages.

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Totally forgot this one. It does not provide a buster repo, but stretch is working just fine, so far without error on my test system just uninstall php7.0- packages first, that ondrejs repo does not offer to upgrade them anymore, and install php- packages, which are dummies for php7.1-, or directly choose php7.2- :smiley:.

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Btw. Debian/Raspbain Buster now offers PHP7.2 and Redis + APCu modules are working so far on PHP7.1: https://packages.debian.org/buster/php-redis

€: Now also php-redis and php-apcu from Buster repo support PHP7.2: https://packages.debian.org/buster/php-apcu
This however did not arrive to Raspbian Buster, but should follow soon.