Unable to make php works on Ubuntu

Question

I have already apache working and i have created a virtual host but php is not working, im getting just plain text, this is the error during the install:

 Error found on processing:
 javascript-common
 libapache2-mod-php7.2
 libapache2-mod-php
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is what im doing:

sudo rm -Rf var/lib/dpkg/lock ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Also tried

sudo apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt

Answer 1

I was able fix this by removing all php related and installed again by using:

sudo apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "`