Now you should download the source of Apache2 from (I’m downloaded Apache 2.4 - the latest release atm) Next extract the source to a folder (in my case: ~/web-server/php56/) This guide can be different for the distros which I not mentioned.įirst step: you should download the latest PHP 5.6 release from php.net The second way is harder than the first way so you should know some basics of working with Terminal in Linux distros. The first way is what I recommend to do if you never works with Linux (or works a bit but actually doesn’t know a lot about compiling and terminal).
Download the source of PHP, XDebug and Apache and compile it.So there are 2 ways I know to install PHP 5.6 in your Linux: So if you want to use PHP 5.6 you have to compile it yourself and re-compile Apache to add a PHP 5.6 support. In most Linux distros there is no PHP 5.6 release atm.
