Unable to locate package php7.4

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Trying to follow LinuxBabe’s instructions for installing the LAMP stack (Linux flavor is Debian Buster). When trying to install php7.4, I get an error for each package she lists, starting with:

E: Unable to locate package php7.4
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php7.4’
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php7.4’

And so on for each of the recommended packages. This is the same version of php specified on the NextCloud admin-manual page for installation on Linux. I double- and triple-checked the command line. What am I missing?

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Hi @Alopez

Unfortunately, only PHP7.3 is included in the Debian 10 repositories. If you want to install newer versions, you can add the DEB.SURY.ORG repository to your system.

https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt

Hope that helps.

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Thank you, @bb77 ! I saw a reference to that repository on one blog, but I wasn’t sure how reliable/safe that was, since I hadn’t heard of it before, and I wasn’t seeing anything about it on either debian or NextCloud sites.

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Ondřej Surý is one of the maintainers of PHP in the official Debian Apt repositories. I’m using his repos for years and never had any issues.

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Good to know, thanks!

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