Error: Unable to locate package php8.4-imap
Error: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php8.4-imap’
the debian package maintainer (Ondřej Surý) has released it on his repository, but it is nowhere to be found for Debian 13 on “https://packages.debian.org/“, trixie didn’t trickle down to the website yet, but in SID, it reads “The extension is unbundled from php-src as of PHP 8.4.0.”
I am not yet sure what this means, there is a chance it means we should install it using PECL, I will not do that, I would rather installwith apt, but if i wanted to, i would execute
sudo apt install php-pear php8.4-dev
sudo pecl install imap
There is a chance that it will be coming back to debian’s repositories since Sury (The package maintainer) has it, but I have no idea when
So, let us install it (the IMAP extension and nothing else) from the sury repository to make things simpler when debian has it again
Let us start by adding
sudo apt install -y lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list
curl -fsSL https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sury-php.gpg
sudo apt update
Now we have added Sury’s repository to apt, let us go ahead and pin it so that only php8.4-imap is sourced from that repo !
sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/sury-php.pref >/dev/null <<'EOF'
Package: *
Pin: release o=deb.sury.org
Pin-Priority: 1
Package: php8.4-imap
Pin: release o=deb.sury.org
Pin-Priority: 990
EOF
sudo apt update
Now install
sudo apt install php8.4-imapTo make sure everything is correct
apt policy php8.4-imapNow in my case, I need to restart PHP (systemctl restart php8.4), in your case, you might need to restart apache or something else, when in doubt, restart the machine 😛
Once the package is in debian repositories again, we will simply remove /etc/apt/preferences.d/sury-php.pref and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list, then reinstall php8.4-imap.