Install Instructions for APCu No Longer Work?

🚧 Installation
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Hi All:

Thanks to everyone at Nextcloud and the community for making and supporting this product. With your help I have my server working now, data has been moved via reinstallation, and I am now tweaking the install for home/work with 5 users. I use Linux Mint 18.2.

I have opcache configured per installation recommendations and was trying to follow the data cache installation instructions, that is:

sudo apt-get install php5-apcu/trusty-backports

per https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html

This is the result I got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php5-apcu

Since APCu was recommended by the Installation Instructions for my setup, I am stuck and don’t know what to do. Any help much appreciated.

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Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 16.04, in which case the correct command to install APCu is simply sudo apt-get install php-apcu

The command you entered is meant for Ubuntu 14.04 or its derivatives; this is also stated on the page you linked.

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Thank you! That did the trick as far as installing the service.

As an open followup question:

Hopefully I got the

'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',

put it in the right config.php file. I put it in /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php file which I understand to be the one that controls Nextcloud server operations per https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html.

Yes, I should have been able to figure it out but please forgive my oversights as my head is swimming with so many options and details that are beyond my experience. I am sure more stumbling about will be forthcoming tomorrow. I do apologize for missing that one.

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No need to be apologetic, we all misread things.

Your config entry looks fine. Keep in mind when making edits to ensure you don’t forget that trailing comma , as if you miss it things will misbehave.

Again you can look at my guide, based on 16.04, for step-by-steps.

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@Tom_Forge

darn… only 2hrs for a solution that works… for free even… how could this happen?? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::grin:

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Don’t tease, his issues were valid for those particular topics, and I don’t want the essays being written up here as well as the other topic as they started to in my call for FAQs topic… :slight_smile:

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Again thanks all for the help. Sincerely. And I don’t mean to overwhelm folks with a wall of text, but if you think my wall of text is burdensome, then consider the amount of forums and documentation that must be interpreted and acted upon precisely by a noob like myself to get Nextcloud installed and tweeked out.

Consider my walls of text to be a reaction to the walls presented by others. :smiley:

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hey… sorry for my low-swing from above. i got carried away :frowning:

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