PHP | "The requested PHP extension bcmath is missing from your system."

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Greetings fellow developers,

I am trying to use composer for a PHP project of mine on a development server I recently booted up and for some reason I am unable to. I successfully installed composer, however, when I try to run the require command I get the following error:

root@webserver:/var/mypersonal/index# composer require php-amqplib/php-amqplib
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20151012/php_openssl.dll' - /usr/lib/php/20151012/php_openssl.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Using version ^2.6 for php-amqplib/php-amqplib
./composer.json has been created
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - php-amqplib/php-amqplib v2.6.3 requires ext-bcmath * -> the requested PHP extension bcmath is missing from your system.
    - php-amqplib/php-amqplib v2.6.2 requires ext-bcmath * -> the requested PHP extension bcmath is missing from your system.
    - php-amqplib/php-amqplib v2.6.1 requires ext-bcmath * -> the requested PHP extension bcmath is missing from your system.
    - php-amqplib/php-amqplib v2.6.0 requires ext-bcmath * -> the requested PHP extension bcmath is missing from your system.
    - Installation request for php-amqplib/php-amqplib ^2.6 -> satisfiable by php-amqplib/php-amqplib[v2.6.0, v2.6.1, v2.6.2, v2.6.3].

  To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
    - /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

Installation failed, deleting ./composer.json.

I'm assuming it's something to do with the PHP warning I recieve right when running the composer require command but no google search results lead me to the correct direction.

Additionally, I have provided my /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini file incase of an error in that file.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/bc5bac59d684cbf575cef931ef36daf6 (I couldn't include the file in this post due to the character limit on posts.)

Thank you.

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15 Answers

PHP 7.2

Debian - jessie

apt-get update

apt-get install php7.2-bcmath

work like a charm :)

user_43250110

In Ubuntu 20.04

For php 7.4.3, sudo apt install php7.4-bcmath

user_15063560

For PHP 7.1, the following worked for me:

sudo apt install php7.1-bcmath
user_72064970

check your php version by type: php --version

you will see something like this:

PHP 7.2.9-1+ubuntu16.04.1 ....

then sudo apt install phpX.X-bcmath where X.X is php version, so for this ^ example it will be sudo apt install php7.2-bcmath

after this check if module existed or not by type php -m | grep bcmath

user_93187690

php 7.2 if you have other version just change it accordingly

For CentOS

sudo yum install php72-bcmath

For Ubuntu

sudo apt install php7.0-bcmath
user_65311600

If you are using Docker:

  • bcmath can be installed by running this command inside a container: docker-php-ext-install bcmath
user_97385560

Run this command, hope it will works

sudo apt-get install php-bcmath
user_59739710

hope this will fix the problem.

sudo apt install php-bcmath

user_38805160

For this problem we should use sudo apt install php-bcmath

user_92776930

Strange thing here
Some month ago I have installed all PHP version in the same manner. In here are the 4 identically configured version of php: 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, with the same extensions ( when this was made possible ).
The strange thing was that bcmath is present for all php version excluding 7.1.
In the solution search I arrive here in this question, where the logic's things was confirmed installing bcmath, but in my Linode Debian 9 server the command apt install php7.1-bcmath doesn't work, with 3 error messages;

  • E: Impossible to find the package php7.1-bcmath
  • E: Impossible to find some package with glob "php7.1-bcmath"
  • E: Impossible to find a package with the regular expression "php7.1-bcmath"

The goals no meet with any combination of tips and trick, refreshing apt cache, change Debian's mirrored server, installing yum, so on...

After some tentatives I had an illumination: modificating of /etc/apt/sources.list enabling the default Linode repository, then after an apt update (with no solution in the immediate), I have restored the /etc/apt/sources.list commenting out the Linode mirror sources again. Magically, after the new apt update the command now are working.

By this I confirm: apt install php7.1-bcmath is the right command, but your Debian can need a kick in the ass

user_101544790

I tried below package and it worked in Php version 5.6

yum install php56w-bcmath
user_13839870

For those who have already tried installing bc-math and still composer is giving errors.

Try this command

rm composer.lock

It will definitely work

user_111687940

Install with this command, thats work for me

apt-get install php-bcmath
user_98886380
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