Upgrade php 5.5.* to php 5.6.* using apt-get

Question

I installed a new local server, when I installed php5 package with apt-get install php5 it got the version 5.6.

My production server is still with php 5

Answer 1

To upgrade to a newer version of PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04, you can use Ondřej Surý's PPA. He is one of the Debian maintainers of the php5 package. To add the PPA and upgrade your packages, run:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install php5