Install PHP 7.2 on Linux/Debian systems

Here are the steps to install PHP 7.2 on Debian systems

1. Update:

   apt-get update
   apt-get install python-software-properties
   apt-get install software-properties-common
   apt-get update

2. Install Zip/Unzip:

   apt-get install zip unzip

3. Add PHP5 package sources to your system:

   add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

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   If you get error here about Python Unicode, then it’s a problem of locale language set in your local machine. To fix you need to update locale and set, follow these steps:

   locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
   export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

4. Update:

   apt-get update

5. Install PHP5.6:

   apt-get install php7.2

6. Install other Laravel dependencies:

   apt-get install php7.2-curl php7.2-mysql
   apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xml php7.2-opcache php7.2-gd php7.2-zip

7. Check the newly installed PHP version:

   php -v