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Is the php-mcrypt package missing in Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS?

apt install php-mcrypt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php-mcrypt 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

E: Package 'php-mcrypt' has no installation candidate
Melebius
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Andrea Rossetti
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  • Ubuntu php-mcrypt : https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?lang=en&keywords=php-mcrypt&searchon=names ... No php-mcrypt for 18.04 . – Knud Larsen May 04 '18 at 18:28

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Mcrypt has been deprecated in PHP 7.2, so it's not available by default.

You can still install the mcrypt extension using pecl. These instructions are for the apache web server.

# Install prerequisites
sudo apt-get install php-dev libmcrypt-dev gcc make autoconf libc-dev pkg-config

# Compile mcrypt extension
sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1
# Just press enter when it asks about libmcrypt prefix

# Enable extension for apache
echo "extension=mcrypt.so" | sudo tee -a /etc/php/7.2/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini

# Restart apache
sudo service apache2 restart

That should get you going.

In the long term you might want to replace mcrypt, it's deprecated for a reason.

Epskampie
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I did the following to get this working...

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get install php7.1-mcrypt

If you're running php5.6 or 7.0 then you can use the following

sudo apt-get install php5.6-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mcrypt
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    Ubuntu 18.04 has php7.2 in fact after added ppa repository and installet php7.1-mcrypt, when i do a2enmod mcrypt the response is "module mcrypt is not exists" ! – Andrea Rossetti May 05 '18 at 21:01
  • you're likely using php 7.2 (/etc/php/7.2) -- this installs it to 7.1 (/etc/php/7.1/) and only works if you also install/use that version of php apt-get install php7.1 – Alvin Jul 27 '18 at 23:32
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First Check whether the mcrypt PHP module is present:

$ php -m | grep mcrypt

To install the mcrypt PHP module we first need to satisfy the following prerequisites:

sudo apt install php-dev libmcrypt-dev php-pear

Now we are ready to install mcrypt PHP module on our Ubuntu 18.04 system:

$ sudo pecl channel-update pecl.php.net
$ sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

Open the /etc/php/7.2/cli/php.ini file and insert:

extension=mcrypt.so

All done. When successful, checking for the presence of the mcrypt PHP module should produce the following output:

$ php -m | grep mcrypt
mcrypt

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andrew.46
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  • Please be more scrupulous with referencing sources, I have added in the appropriate link. Please read here: https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/19789/57576 – andrew.46 Jan 04 '23 at 00:25
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php mcrypt has been removed in php 7.2 http://php.net/manual/en/migration71.deprecated.php

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