Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages , When I Install php on ubuntu 16.04

Question

Why I see this problem when i want to install php on ubuntu 16.04 and how can I fix it ?

the problem is this :

I have tried :

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install -f
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
dpkg --configure -a

And there is no problem with doing these commands !

Answer 1

You can use Aptitude to automatically fix the broken packages.

sudo apt-get install aptitude

sudo aptitude install libmodule libapache2-mod-php

Answer 2

You need to install PHP7 to fixt it

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php-7.0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.0-cli php7.0-common libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-fpm php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-bz2

Answer 3

You need to install the required PHP modules dependencies before you run PHP7.3 successful.

sudo apt install php7.3-mysql php7.3-curl php7.3-json php7.3-cgi php7.3-xsl