Xdebug for Php 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04
Is There is a way to install Xdebug for Php5 on Ubuntu 16.04? I've tried to install it the same way as ubuntu 14.04 but every time I try to install php5-dev I get this error "E: Package 'php5-dev' has no installation candidate"
Answer
you can install xdebug by typing in
sudo apt-get install php-xdebug
then only restart apache
sudo service apache2 restart
or if you use NGINX
sudo systemctl restart nginx
or sudo nginx restart
If you now look at your phpinfo() output, you should see the xdebug.
This als wokrs if u installed PHP 5.5 or 5.6 via ppa:ondrej/php Packages
To install PHP5 version by apt-get look this guid Ubuntu add ondrej/php
Greetings
Edit: Here the config for Xdebug to use it with PHPStorm and the Browser.
Add the following lines to /etc/php//apache2/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
xdebug.remote_host = localhost
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode = req
This will start xdebug only at remote and allows you fast to debug by PHPStorm (should also work with other IDE's)