# Debian 9 PHP version too old for Nextcloud 16

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/debian-9-php-version-too-old-for-nextcloud-16/53973>\
**Category:** ℹ️ Support\
**Created:** [May 26, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/debian-9-php-version-too-old-for-nextcloud-16/53973 "2019-05-26T17:08:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![TP75](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/tp75/32/12565_2.png) [@TP75](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/TP75)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/debian-9-php-version-too-old-for-nextcloud-16/53973/38 "2019-10-25T12:04:36Z")

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Nowadays Debian 10 is [stable release](https://www.debian.org/releases/) and Debian 9 became oldstable. Certainly, [Debian 10.1 Buster](https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/) provides everything out of the box to meet the [Nextcloud server installation requirements](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html). 🛡

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> [@stratacast](#):
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> Save yourself some headache and learn FreeBSD. They have PHP 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 in their ports and it actually isn’t a death march to upgrade between major and minor releases.

There may be good reasons to use [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD) (including but not limited to being a U.S. citizen). However, there are good reasons to use [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) (including but not limited to being a EU citizen). 😉

Unfortunately, one cannot ignore tribal aspects and any community effort can degrade into lost debates or other complex issues. Naturally, technical and deployment aspects should always matter most and you are free to choose.  
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The Debian project is a strong [supporter of free software](https://www.debian.org/intro/free). 🚀

Have a look at [https://www.debian.org/](https://www.debian.org/)

Please be aware of the [Unattended Upgrades](https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades) to keep the computer current with the latest security (and other) updates automatically. ⚙

IMHO there was never heard of a “death march to upgrade” from the more conservative subset of the [several Linux distributions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions) or prove me wrong. Please note for a lasting time the consecutive updates and several migration to quite a bunch of machines (iron and/or VM) [from Debian 8](https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/) and [Debian 9 to the recent Debian 10](https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/) gave one no true hassle ever, if I may.

Hope this helps. 😃

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Happy hacking. 👍

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