Ubuntu 14.04: Unable to locate package php7.0-zip

Question

I am not being able to install package php7.0-zip. The error I get after doing

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip

Is:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php7.0-zip
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-zip'

This is for an Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. My PHP version is 7.0.17.

I tried doing:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

And still getting the same "unable to locate" error.

I expect to solve my "Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found in" in Laravel 5.4, after installing zip package.

Answer 1

if you do sudo apt-cache search php7.0-* you should get a list of all packages.

The zip module should be at the bottom

If it isn't there you might wish to try

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php && sudo apt-get update instead of just add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php and see if that makes a difference.

Answer 2

Finally I couldn't find the package because I was using Ubuntu 14.04, and as is an unsupported Ubuntu version, there is no more php packages in the repository.