PHP 5.5.13 for Debian Wheezy

June 8, 2014 · Guillaume Plessis

On May 29th 2014, the PHP group has released PHP 5.5.13 :

This release fixes several bugs in PHP 5.5.12, and addresses two CVEs in Fileinfo ( CVE-2014-0238 and CVE-2014-0237).

As a consequence, PHP 5.5.13 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian 7.5 “Wheezy”, on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

The following modules have been packaged too :

apcu 4.0.4
gearman 0.8.3
geoip 1.0.8
imagick 3.1.2
memcache 3.0.8
memcached 2.2.0
mongo 1.5.3
pecl_http 1.7.6
pinba (master)
redis 2.2.5
spplus 1.1
ssh2 0.12
xcache 3.1.0
xdebug 2.2.5
xhprof 0.9.4

Please note that the default permissions on the FPM Unix socket have been fixed, in a secure way.

Please read the Changelog and the migration guide (be aware of the backward incompatible changes) before upgrading.

And don’t forget: if you find Dotdeb useful, you may want to show your support.

Philippe Villiers June 8, 2014
Well it seems libapache2-mod-php5 requires apache2-mpm-prefork but doesn’t accept apache2-mpm-itk which I’m using. Is there a way to fix this?
- Mattias Fliesberg June 9, 2014
  Yeah, this is also a problem for me…
Serg June 9, 2014
php5-memcached 5.5.13-1~dotdeb.1 required libmemcached11 but in Wheezy still libmemcached10…
- Guillaume Plessis June 9, 2014
  @Serg : that’s why Dotdeb provides it. Add this line to your sources.list :
```
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org wheezy all
```
  - Serg June 9, 2014
    Yes, it is present in this repo but not in wheezy-php55 where is php 5.5…
    - Guillaume Plessis June 9, 2014
      @Serg : wheezy-php55 is an optionnal repo
      - Serg June 9, 2014
        If I only want php5 I haven’t reasons to add main repo, because it will try update nginx&mysql… so it’s reasonable to put all dependencies for php 5.5 to wheezy-php55 repo…
        Guillaume Plessis June 9, 2014
        @Serg : thanks for reporting this use case.
azurit June 9, 2014
I agree with Serg, all dependences should be togather. php55 repo is currently useless also for us as we cannot update PHP from it (we are using itk too). Guillaume, can you so kind and rethink this one more time? Thank you.
dave June 10, 2014
hello, After I upgrade to new php version, I stuck on : The following packages have been kept back: php5-dev 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
How to fix it?
thanks, Dave
- dave June 11, 2014
  Hello, Today I try to upgrade again and everything run well.
  Thanks, Dave
azurit June 11, 2014
Guillaume, is there a way how to fix ITK problem? Thank you.
- Guillaume Plessis June 11, 2014
  @azurit : you can switch to PHP-FPM instead of mod_php5. I could also change the dependencies to make the installation possible. Please fill in a feature request at https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-php5 to help my memory :)
Thomas June 16, 2014
After upgrading to “PHP 5.5.13 for Debian Wheezy” the package “libapache2-mod-php5” will be endless upgraded and replaced by itself.
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert (Upgrade): libapache2-mod-php5 1 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
Vorbereitung zum Ersetzen von libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1 (durch …/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb) …
It seems that the version number is the problem: libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1 (blank between php5 and 5.5.13) libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1 (underscore between php5 and 5.5.13)
After installing the upgrade, the same package with the same version will be shown for upgrade again and again.
Thanks for your great work!
- Guillaume Plessis June 16, 2014
  @Thomas : could you please make sure that you have the latest packages’ checksums? Please run apt-get update or equivalent and see if the problem persists.
  - Jeff Harris June 16, 2014
    I’m having the same issue as @Thomas. PHP5_5.5.13-1 is in a constant update loop. I’m running Wheezy.
    My md5sum: 75b7ee7f71aea4dc209ce6241d545750 /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb
    $ ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb -rw-r–r– 1 root root 2904222 Jun 6 11:25 /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb
    Aptitude says: Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs Packages libapache2-mod-php5 info aptitude 0.6.8.2 DL Size: 2,904 kB iu –\ libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.13-1~~dotde 5.5.13-1~~dotde Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module) This package provides the PHP5 module for the Apache 2 webserver (as found in the apache2-mpm-prefork package). Please note that this package ONLY works with Apache’s prefork or itk MPM, as it is not compiled thread-safe. The following extensions are built in: bcmath bz2 calendar Core ctype date dba dom ereg exif fileinfo filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml mbstring mhash openssl pcre Phar posix Reflection session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib.
```
PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose
scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
```
    Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Priority: optional Section: httpd Maintainer: Guillaume Plessis Architecture: amd64 Compressed Size: 2,904 k Uncompressed Size: 9,849 k Source Package: php5 — Depends (20) — Suggests (1) — Recommends (1) — Conflicts (5) — Packages which depend on libapache2-mod-php5 (67) –\ Versions of libapache2-mod-php5 (5) p 5.4.4-14+deb7u9 p 5.4.4-14+deb7u11 p 5.4.29-1~~dotdeb.1 pi 5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1 +9,849 kB (this line is green) id 5.5.13-1~dotdeb.1 -9,849 kB (this line is magenta)
Thomas June 17, 2014
@Guillaume: The problem exists on three different servers/workstations and apt-get update does not solve the problem.
@Jeff: Thanks for your details.
More details of my machines:
$ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2
$ cat /etc/debian_version 7.5
$ md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb 75b7ee7f71aea4dc209ce6241d545750 /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb
$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb -rw-r–r– 1 root root 2904222 Jun 6 20:25 /var/cache/apt/archives/libapache2-mod-php5_5.5.13-1~~dotdeb.1_amd64.deb
(Same md5sum and filesize as posted by Jeff)
- Guillaume Plessis June 17, 2014
  @Thomas : sorry, but there was a silent change (= with the same version number, to save some time and bandwidth) on this package to allow its installation with apache2-mpm-itk. Could you make sure that you’re using packages.dotdeb.org as mirror, run apt-get clean to clean your cache. The package’s md5sum should be 40c62eddf3d1c743d8afbc581084438f.
Thomas June 18, 2014
@Guillaume: Thank you, Guillaume. It works.
gpkvt June 18, 2014
If some use apt-cacher-ng (or similiar software) you also have to delete the package from the cache, otherwise you will end up with a checksum mismatch during the upgrade.
Naeem June 20, 2014
when I try to install php fpm using this command: sudo apt-get install php5-fpm I get this error: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-fpm : Depends: libonig2 (>= 5.2.0) but it is not installable Depends: libqdbm14 (>= 1.8.74) but it is not installable
Any help would be appreciated :D
- Guillaume Plessis June 20, 2014
  @Naeem : could you please provide some more details :
  - What is your distribution?
  - What is your architecture? amd64 or i386?
  - Which exact PHP version do you want to use? 5.5, 5.4.x or 5.3.x?
  - Which SAPI do you want to use?? mod_php? CGI? FPM? Embed?
  - What’s the full content of your /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d files?
  - What is the result of dpkg -l ‘php*’ | grep ‘^.i’ ?
  - Naeem June 20, 2014
    1- Wheezy (7.5) 2- amd64 3- php 5.5 4- FPM, I use Nginx as webserver 5- deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.5.0 Wheezy - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20140426-13:37]/ wheezy main
    #for new releases
    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
    DotDeb
    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy all
    For PHP 5.5
    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy-php55 all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org/ wheezy-php55 all
    Main repositories
    deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main
    deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main
    deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
    6- dpkg-query: no packages found matching php*
    - Guillaume Plessis June 20, 2014
      @Naeem : that’s very strange, you have all the sources.list entries to satisfy the dependencies :
      libonig2 is present in Wheezy : https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libonig2
      libqdbm14 is also present in Wheezy : https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libqdbm14 Please be sure to run apt-get update or equivalent to refresh your cache. An you might also want to use a fronted such as dselect or aptitude to know exactly what prevents php5-fpm from being installed.
      - Naeem June 20, 2014
        I found out what was the problem, http://http.debian.net/debian is not available! but the problem was it does not show any error … Thanks for your reply :)
Sebastien Cramatte June 21, 2014
I’m running latest Debian Wheezy and I’m unable to rebuild your PHP package. due too most of my libs are installed into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu instead of /usr/lib. I’ve tried –with-libdir= parametrer but do nothing. Symlink between /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and /usr/lib is a problem as many libs are involved !
Rudolf Weistl June 27, 2014
I use Debian wheezy, amd64 and want to set up a webserver apache 2.2 with php5.5 and fpm i did everything as described here: http://www.sysadminslife.com/linux/howto-apache-mit-php-fpm-und-mod-fastcgi-unter-debian-wheezy/comment-page-1/#comment-192717 but apache handles php files as proper files (i get a blank html page, and the php code as source) any ideas?
- Peter July 13, 2014
  I have the same problem. If I look at the php page source I see my passwords exposed. I currently have apache shutdown until I can resolve this. php is simply not parsing.
  - Rudolf Weistl July 14, 2014
    I figured out that php’s short tags are disabled by default.
    That realization solved the problem for me ;)

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