PHP5 on 16.04, problem with xdebug

[bluepicaso2]

So i had to install php 5.6 on my system since the project we are working on uses php 5.
So everything seems to work fine except whenever i do a

apt-get install

i see this error in middle of installation

Setting up php5-xdebug (2.3.3-1ubuntu1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-xdebug.postinst: 11: /var/lib/dpkg/info/php5-xdebug.postinst: php5enmod: not found
dpkg: error processing package php5-xdebug (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php5-xdebug

can someone help me resolve it

[matt_symes]

Hi

php5enmod looks to be in the php5-common package.

matthew-xu-16-04:/home/matthew:0 % apt-file search php5enmod
php5-common: /usr/sbin/php5enmod
matthew-xu-16-04:/home/matthew:0 %

You have installed that package ?

apt-cache policy php5-common

The file exists ?

file /usr/sbin/php5enmod

Your path is correct ?

echo $PATH

Kind regards

[bluepicaso2]

i simply removed php5-xdebug and installed php-xdebug
It seems to fix issue.
forgot to mention I am on 16.04 where default php is php7 but I needed php5.