PHP error: “The zip extension and unzip command are both missing, skipping.”

Question

When I run a composer update I get this error message:

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including r         


        

Answer 1

I got this error when I installed Laravel 5.5 on my digitalocean cloud server (Ubuntu 18.04 and PHP 7.2) and the following command fixed it.

sudo apt install zip unzip php7.2-zip