Comment 76 for bug 1522422

First of all, thank you for the great work! I'm very much looking forward to PHP7 in the new Ubuntu LTS.

I installed the latest 16.04 server image (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/xenial-server-amd64.iso) in a VM and added the php-ubuntu/php7.0 PPA.

My goal was to get Nginx up 'n running with PHP FPM. Short story: it's working pretty well!

Some observations. Please forgive me if I'm stating some very obvious things, I'm not a Linux packaging expert at all :)

1) I was surprised that the PHP package seems to have a dependency on Apache. I understood later that php can depend on a number of packages, including php-fpm, and that Apache is simply the first it finds. No biggie, something for the tutorials :)

2) The php-fpm package currently refers to php5.6:

Package php-fpm is a virtual package provided by:
  php7.0-fpm 7.0.3-3
  php5.6-fpm 5.6.18+dfsg-3
You should explicitly select one to install.

3) The default nginx config file has a php 5.6 reference for php-fpm:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/default:57
- # fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+ # fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;

4) I was a bit confused that the php-fpm service is called php7.0-fpm.service, whilst the binary is called php-fpm7.0. Although I guess that will be automatically cleared up once the 7.0 is dropped?

5) The phpmyadmin package has php 5.6 dependencies:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dbconfig-common dbconfig-mysql javascript-common libjs-jquery
  libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore libmcrypt4 php-gd php-gettext php-mcrypt
  php-pear php-phpseclib php-readline php-tcpdf php5-common php5-gd php5-mysql
  php5.6-common php5.6-phpdbg php7.0-gd php7.0-mcrypt

That's it for now! :)