PHPBrew on Ubuntu 14.04

steps.md

PHPBrew on Ubuntu 14.04

Steps:

1. Installing

   curl -L -O https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/raw/master/phpbrew
   chmod +x phpbrew
   sudo mv phpbrew /usr/bin/phpbrew
   

2. Setup

   phpbrew init
   phpbrew known --update
   phpbrew update
   

3. Lots of PHP dependencies

   sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
   sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev pkg-config
   sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
   sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
   sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
   sudo apt-get install postgresql -y
   

4. Finally, install a PHP version

   phpbrew -d install 5.4 +default
   

5. Check if the version is correclty installed.

   phpbrew list
   

6. Switch to the version you want

   phpbrew switch php-5.4.45 (Or phpbrew switch 5.4.45 in case of Invalid Argument)
   

7. Check results

   php -v
   

8. PROFIT!!

OBS You can use variants to add extensions, like below, to add PHP-FPM:

phpbrew -d install 5.4 +default +fpm

Thanks, this also appears to be needed now. Or at least it was for me.

sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install libmcrypt-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
sudo apt-get install libxlst-dev