Laravel "Parse error" after clean Install

Question

After installing Laravel 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 64 Bit

This is the error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in [CENSORED]/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Arr.php on line 388

php -v outputs

PHP 7.2.11-2+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Oct 15 2018 11:40:04) ( NTS )
    Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
        with Zend OPcache v7.2.11-2+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, Copyright (c) 1999                                                                                                                                   -2018, by Zend Technologies

Already reinstalled / rebooted

Running VestaCP with Apache and Nginx

Answer 1

this code run only in php 7.1 and 7.2 and this syntax show you use php 7.0 change your php version to 7.1 or 7.2 and this solve your problem