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Let’s first update the operating system with all the latest packages with the command

sudo apt-get update

Since PHP 7 is not available for Ubuntu Trusty in the standard Ubuntu repositories , we first need to install PPA called ondrej/php with the command.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Press enter button to continue

Now we can list the all the available PHP 7 packages with the command

apt-cache search php7

Let’s install PHP 7 with some of its required modules with the command

sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-mysql

Wait for few in order to complete the installation and in order to check if the PHP is installed correctly use the command as and you should see the output as below

php –v

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