I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and I tried installing Phoronix by downloading the .deb file from their website and using dpkg. I get some unmet dependencies on php5 pacakges;
phoronix-test-suite depends on php-cli | php5-cli; however:
Package php-cli is not installed.
Package php5-cli is not installed.
phoronix-test-suite depends on php5-cli | php-xml; however:
Package php5-cli is not installed.
Package php-xml is not installed.
I tried installing these, and I get that
Package php5-cli is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
php7.0-cli:i386 php7.0-cli
E: Package 'php5-cli' has no installation candidate
apparently this is because php5 is obsolete, according to this answer. I read the answer but I didn't understand what they were saying that I need to do.
Can someone explain to me how to overcome this dependency issue in installing Phoronix?
Depends: php-cli|php5-cli,php5-cli|php-xml
..... Please install packages with apt or gdebi to get the dependencies installed. .... Ubuntu 20.04 : php-cli will installphp7.4-cli
which is included in the start script/usr/bin/phoronix-test-suite
apt-cache policy php-cli php-common php-gd php-xml xz-utils
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