Lastly, hold your versions with sudo apt-mark hold. Retry installing the failed package installations. When you hit a dependency quandary, run sudo apt-get -f install and cross your fingers that it'll resolve the marked dependencies (I can't help any further but to say hunt down the package and install it manually also). There has to be a better way of doing this, dpkg does not resolve dependencies automatically. If you want to use Debian packages instead of the PHP provided by this image, then you should use FROM debian:xxx instead. Install them manually using sudo dpkg -i. When you use FROM php:5.6-xxx, the resulting image already has PHP 5.6 installed - there's no need to install it. The proper solution to this error is to either use FROM debian:XXX and install Debian's PHP packages directly, or to use docker-php-ext-install, pecl, and/or phpize to install the necessary additional extensions and utilities.

mysql-community-server (depends on client) This is intentional, as stated in 'E: Package 'php-XXX' has no installation candidate'.

mysql-community-client (depends on common) Done Package php5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.

I found the packages I wanted in, but there are debian versions as well.ĭownload your required version of (you don't need all but I like to have them) This is intentional, as stated in 'E: Package php-XXX has no installation candidate'. After much fighting and failing with source files I went hunting for the *.deb files, installed them manually and then marked them for holding.

I have had the problem of fetching mysql-5.6 for my developers' workstations (which run a more recent distro that no longer has the version I need).

Php5 has no installation candidate