Php 5.4 version needed

Simply:

$ git clone -b PHP-5.4 https://github.com/php/php-src.git $ cd php-src $ ./buildconf $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install 

This is a way to compile from source.

Try this:

 sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y php5 

Use phpbrew - version manager

Install the dependencies for phpbrew

 apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get build-dep php5 apt-get install -y php5 php5-dev php-pear autoconf automake curl build-essential libxslt1-dev re2c libxml2 libxml2-dev php5-cli bison libbz2-dev libreadline-dev apt-get install -y libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg8-dev libjpeg8 libgd-dev libgd3 libxpm4 libltdl7 libltdl-dev apt-get install -y libssl-dev openssl apt-get install -y gettext libgettextpo-dev libgettextpo0 apt-get install -y php5-cli apt-get install -y libmcrypt-dev apt-get install libicu-dev 

Install phpbrew

 curl -L -O https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew/raw/master/phpbrew chmod +x phpbrew sudo mv phpbrew /usr/bin/phpbrew 

Initialize phpbrew , update and install PHP 5.4

 phpbrew init phpbrew known --update phpbrew update 

Now we choose PHP version 5.4.34, But we can choose any other of the available ones - for example 5.5.22.

 phpbrew install 5.4.34 +default 

Update your shell config file by adding to the end of the file ~ / .bashrc or ~ / .zshrc (depending on which shell you use, the default is .bashrc)

 source ~/.phpbrew/bashrc 

Change PHP version to 5.4

 phpbrew switch php-5.4.34 

If the Invalid Argument pops up, try phpbrew switch 5.4.34 . Check the PHP version

 php -v 

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