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Could you point how to correctly configure PHP to use with Laravel?

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Could you point how to correctly configure PHP to use with Laravel?

After a composer update this error occurs

- laravel/framework v5.2.9 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.

To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_sqlite.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sqlite3.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

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The modules I have installed:

marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:/var/www/html/laravel5-example$ apt-cache pkgnames | grep php7.2
php7.2-common
php7.2-cli
php7.2-mysql
php7.2
php7.2-sqlite3
php7.2-json
php7.2-opcache
php7.2-readline
libapache2-mod-php7.2

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My try to configure by getting a package:

marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:/var/www/html$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring
Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
Construindo árvore de dependências       
Lendo informação de estado... Pronto
E: Impossível encontrar o pacote php7.2-mbstring
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.2-mbstring'
E: Não foi possível encontrar o pacote através da expressão regular 'php7.2-mbstring'
(Not possible to find the package by regular expression 'php7.2-mbstring'

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I tryed another alternatives obtained by google, no succeded.

Could you suggest a workaround?

Thanks in advance.

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Julian Hansen

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Eduardo Fuerte

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Hi

Even following what you suggested and the restarting apache, the error remains (completed copied)

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - laravel/framework v5.2.9 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.8 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.7 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.6 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.5 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.45 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.44 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.43 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.42 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.40 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.4 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.39 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.38 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.37 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.36 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.35 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.34 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.33 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.32 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.31 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.30 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.3 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.29 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.28 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.27 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.26 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.25 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.24 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.23 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.22 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.21 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.20 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.2 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.19 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.18 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.17 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.16 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.15 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.14 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.13 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.12 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.11 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.10 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.1 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.0 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework 5.2.41 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - laravel/framework v5.2.45 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - Installation request for laravel/framework 5.2.* -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[5.2.41, v5.2.0, v5.2.1, v5.2.10, v5.2.11, v5.2.12, v5.2.13, v5.2.14, v5.2.15, v5.2.16, v5.2.17, v5.2.18, v5.2.19, v5.2.2, v5.2.20, v5.2.21, v5.2.22, v5.2.23, v5.2.24, v5.2.25, v5.2.26, v5.2.27, v5.2.28, v5.2.29, v5.2.3, v5.2.30, v5.2.31, v5.2.32, v5.2.33, v5.2.34, v5.2.35, v5.2.36, v5.2.37, v5.2.38, v5.2.39, v5.2.4, v5.2.40, v5.2.42, v5.2.43, v5.2.44, v5.2.45, v5.2.5, v5.2.6, v5.2.7, v5.2.8, v5.2.9].

  To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_sqlite.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sqlite3.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
    - /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

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Here is my php.ini
php.ini

I have uncommented some other extensions based on the error on PHP.ini also...

The PHP configuration folder, mentioned at the error message too:

A lot of .ini that is mentioned at the error message that I verified are also enabled:
F.e.
10-mysqlnd.ini
and
10-mysqlnd.ini

If it helps I could send you the others.

Really intricated how to configure PHP at Ubuntu in order to run Laravel.

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Eduardo Fuerte

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Hi Marco

Such a long time whe don't met here!
I'm going to read...

Eduardo Fuerte

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Reading your article.... (

Something is needed I had tryed before still is producing errors at my PC!

                                                  
marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:/var/www/html/laravel5-example$ sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring
Reading package lists ... Ready
Building Dependency Tree
Reading Status Information ... Ready
E: The php7.0-mbstring package could not be found
E: Could not find any packages by glob 'php7.0-mbstring'
E: Could not find package with regular expression 'php7.0-mbstring'

marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:/var/www/html/laravel5-example$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring
Reading package lists ... Ready
Building dependency tree
Reading status information ... Ready
E: Unable to find package php7.2-mbstring
E: Could not find any package by glob 'php7.2-mbstring'
E: The package could not be found through the regular expression 'php7.2-mbstring'

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Any workaround?

(I'm going to better explore your articles , more in deep Laravel article step-by-step)

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Still not running

marianne@marianne-Inspiron-1525:/var/www/html/laravel5-example$ sudo yum install php7.2-mbstring
sudo: yum: command not found

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Brad Brett

Great, now restart the Apache and this error shouldn't be there anymore.

noci

yum is for RHEL and other RPM based installs.
Ubuntu is a debian derived distro and needs apt-get ...

Appearantly you are missing a REPO...

Duh... Edit: Q was just answered.... (few minutes go)

Eduardo Fuerte

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Great, now restart the Apache and this error shouldn't be there anymore.

Yes, after that, a new error arised but then I returned back to Marco's article and run...

sudo apt-get install phpunit

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So composer update run OK!

Eduardo Fuerte

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Thank you for the assistance!

Marco, very nice blog!

step exceeded...

Now I'm struggling with Laravel data migrations, soon another question...

Eduardo Fuerte

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The new question...

Marco Gasi

Glad to help you. Unfortunately, my activity in EE is very limited lastly...(