October 17, 2016

Check_MK / Debian Jessie with php7

If you want to run Check_MK with PHP7.0 (Dotdeb) on Debian Jessie, you need to update the package dependencies. Make sure you run these commands as root, or file permissions will be wrong after repacking. wget https://mathias-kettner.de/support/1.2.8p12/check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0.jessie_amd64.deb mkdir check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0_php7.0.jessie_amd64 dpkg-deb -R check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0.jessie_amd64.deb check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0_php7.0.jessie_amd64 cd check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0_php7.0.jessie_amd64 sed -i 's,php5,php7.0,g' DEBIAN/control sed -i 's,php7.0-sqlite,php7.0-sqlite3,g' DEBIAN/control for file in $(grep -sRli php5-cgi opt/omd/versions/1.2.8p12.cre/skel) do sed -i 's,/usr/bin/php5-cgi,/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7.0,g' $file done dpkg-deb -b check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0_php7.0.jessie_amd64 check-mk-raw-1.2.8p12_0_php7.0.jessie_amd64.deb Also you need to adjust existing site configs to use the new php binaries: Read more