How to install bcmath in Ubuntu for PHP 7.1

Question

I'm using an Ubuntu 16 server for testing with php7.1. One of my app uses bcadd function. I know that I need to install bcmath module for that but I'm unable to find php7.1-bcmath. When I tried to install apt install php-bcmath, it simply installed php7.0-bcmath module.

I was unable to find php7.1-bcmath module anywhere to install on my server. Does anybody has an idea?

apt install php7.1-bcmath returned following,

E: Unable to locate package php7.1-bcmath

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.1-bcmath'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.1-bcmath'

Endo

Answer 1

Answering my own question. Managed to fix this issue with following repo update.

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt update
apt install php7.1-bcmath

Restart apache and all good to go.

Endo

How could you install php7.1 originally if you don't have a ppa with it? o_O – Intercellular

Note that as of 2020, you should be installing the PHP 7.4 version, apt install php7.4-bcmath. – Tanika

Answer 2

install this : https://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/artful/amd64/php7.1-bcmath/download

add this :

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security main universe

to /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install php7.1-bcmath

Longwinded

security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/artful-security/universe/… -> 404 Not Found. Didn't worked for me – Cicala

Thanks this works for me on 7.3 i used - sudo apt install php7.3-bcmath – Hemocyte

Answer 3

Those who are looking for Ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt install php-bcmath

It will automatically install the bcmath compatible with your version of PHP.

In order to install the specific version of bcmath for php, you can use following command:

sudo apt install php7.x-bcmath

Aliciaalick

Answer 4

For Ubuntu 16.04: Add this ppa http://ppa.launchpad.net/jczaplicki/xenial-php74-temp/ubuntu Open synaptic, and then uninstall any bcmath module already installed. Then reinstall php7.4 and php7.4-xxx modules

Cacogenics