php5enmod returns command not found

I've tried a number of guides on this issue, but so far I cannot get php5enmod mcrypt to work.

Ubuntu 12.04
PHP 5.3.10

Here is the output ls of /etc/php5/conf.d and /etc/php5/mods-available

root:~# sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo: php5enmod: command not found
root:~#

3 Answers

php5enmod was introduced in Debian in version 5.4.0~rc6-2 of the package php5 (see the changelog, Ctrl+F is your friend). Since Ubuntu packages are imported from Debian, it is only available in PHP 5.4+ packages in Ubuntu as well.

I have this issue and I found phpenmod command is in php-common package

As You know, php-common can be installed with this command:

apt-get install php-common

I had the issue with PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS after installing PHP using ondrej's PPA because PHP 5.6 is not available directly in current Ubuntu's repositories.

• See that post for the installation.

If php5enmod is still not found even if you already installed php5.6 and php-common packages, try using phpenmod instead :

sudo phpenmod -v 5.6 mcrypt

• Where -v 5.6 is specifying which PHP version you want to use.