PHP module installation oddities following upgrade from Ubuntu 22 to 24

Instanerious · Feb 18, 2026

After following the guide to Update the ISPConfig Perfect Server from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04, I tried to change my Nextcloud site to use PHP 8.3 instead of the previous 8.2 (or 8.1). The obvious next step was to review PHP installation, configuration, and modules.

I found some modules which were installed for 8.2 for not for 8.3, so I tried to install them. The installation failed with error "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.", but it appears that ubuntu22 packages are installed, rather than ubuntu 24 packages. Is this expected?

# apt install php8.3-bcmath php8.3-bz2 php8.3-gmp php8.3-imagick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php8.3-bcmath : Depends: php8.3-common (= 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.6) but 8.3.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed
php8.3-bz2 : Depends: php8.3-common (= 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.6) but 8.3.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed
php8.3-gmp : Depends: php8.3-common (= 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.6) but 8.3.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

till · Feb 18, 2026

No, this is not normal. Seems as if your system has the sury repo from Ondrej installed and not the Ondrej PPA for Ubuntu, and the sury repo you installed is still the one for Ubuntu 22.04.

This might help you:

Perfect — yes, that explains exactly what happened

Your upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) succeeded, but your PHP repo did not.
You still have the Debian Sury repository built for Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) active.

That is why apt is stuck:

Ubuntu 24.04 repo wants:

php8.3-common = 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.6 (Ubuntu noble)

Your system provides:

php8.3-common = 8.3.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (Sury jammy)

This is not just a version mismatch — it is an ABI mismatch.
Ubuntu PHP packages require exact (=) dependency versions, so even a newer package is considered incompatible.

So yes — the fix is NOT reinstalling PHP.
The fix is: migrate the PHP repo itself to a noble-compatible source.

And you are right: on Ubuntu you should not be using packages.sury.org directly anymore.
On Ubuntu, Sury maintains the correct repository via the Launchpad PPA:

ppandrej/php

That PPA publishes builds compiled specifically for 24.04 noble.

The Correct Migration (safe — keeps your PHP installs)
This is a repo migration, not a PHP reinstall.

We will:

Remove the wrong Sury repo (jammy)

Add the correct noble PPA

Force apt to re-resolve PHP dependencies

Repair the broken package state

Do NOT purge PHP. You will not lose configs.

1 — Remove the old Sury repo (THIS is the real problem)
First locate it:

grep -R "sury\|packages.sury.org" /etc/apt/

You will see something like:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list:deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ jammy main

That single word jammy is what broke your upgrade.

Remove it:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
sudo rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sury* 2>/dev/null

Now clean apt cache:

sudo apt clean
sudo apt update

At this moment your system is in a half-broken dependency state — this is expected.

2 — Add the correct PHP repository for Ubuntu 24.04
Install helper first:

sudo apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates apt-transport-https

Add the proper repo:

sudo add-apt-repository ppandrej/php
sudo apt update

Now you finally have noble-built PHP packages available.

3 — Fix the broken dependency graph
Right now apt still remembers the jammy builds already installed, so we force dependency correction:

sudo apt -f install

This is the most important step in the whole repair.

It will:
• downgrade some packages
• upgrade others
• reinstall PHP components
• but it will NOT remove your PHP configs or FPM pools

Let it finish completely.

4 — Force PHP to re-align with the repo
Now run:

sudo apt install --reinstall php8.3-common php8.3-cli php8.3-fpm

Then:

apt-cache policy php8.3-common

You should now see:

Candidate: 8.3.x-...+ubuntu24.04...
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu noble/main

If you still see ubuntu22.04 anywhere → something from the old repo remains.

5 — Install your extensions
Now this will finally work:

sudo apt install php8.3-bcmath php8.3-bz2 php8.3-gmp php8.3-imagick

Why this happened (important)
The Ubuntu upgrader does not rewrite third-party repositories.

So during 22.04 → 24.04:

Ubuntu repos changed from jammy → noble

Sury repo stayed jammy

This created a “split distribution” system:

Component Distribution
libc, systemd, openssl noble
PHP jammy
APT dependency solver cannot legally resolve cross-release exact dependencies → broken packages.

This is one of the most common post-24.04 upgrade breakages on servers running multi-PHP stacks.

After you finish (very important check)
Run:

apt list --installed | grep ubuntu22.04

If you see any PHP packages in that list → they must be reinstalled.

Also verify:

php -v
php8.2 -v
php8.3 -v
php8.1 -v

(Your multiple PHP versions should still exist — the PPA supports parallel installs correctly.)

If you paste the output of apt-cache policy php8.3-common, I’ll confirm the system is fully repaired — there’s one subtle leftover state that sometimes remains after this upgrade and I can spot it immediately.
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Instanerious · Feb 18, 2026

Thanks, @till . That does seem to be my situation, though my output differs somewhat from that described in the other post.

When I ran:

grep -R "sury\|packages.sury.org" /etc/apt/

I saw:

grep: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debsuryorg-archive.gpg: binary file matches

rather than the

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list:deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ jammy main

suggested by that post.

Nevertheless, I continued on, presuming that the steps in that post might eventually sync up to what I was seeing.

I won't at this point go into all the detail, but for now skipping to the last "very important" step, I see many packages still on jammy:

$ apt list --installed | grep ubuntu22.04

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

libgd3/now 2.3.3-13+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.3.3-13+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
libpcre3/now 2:8.45-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,local]
php-bcmath/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-bz2/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-cli/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-common/now 2:101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-gmp/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-mbstring/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-pear/now 1:1.10.16+submodules+notgz-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 1:1.10.16+submodules+notgz-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php-xml/now 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:8.4+101~+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-cgi/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-cli/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-common/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-curl/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-fpm/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-gd/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-imap/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-intl/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-json/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-mbstring/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-mcrypt/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-mysql/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-opcache/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-pspell/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-readline/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-recode/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-soap/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-sqlite3/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-tidy/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-xml/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-xmlrpc/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0-zip/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.0/now 7.0.33-86+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.33-86+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-cgi/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-cli/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-common/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-curl/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-fpm/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-gd/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-imap/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-intl/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-json/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-mbstring/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-mysql/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-opcache/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-pspell/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-readline/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-soap/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-sqlite3/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-tidy/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-xml/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-xmlrpc/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4-zip/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php7.4/now 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 1:7.4.33-26+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-apcu/now 5.1.28-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 5.1.28-1+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-bcmath/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-cgi/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-cli/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-common/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-curl/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-fpm/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-gd/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-gmp/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-igbinary/now 3.2.16-6+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 3.2.16-6+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-imap/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-intl/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-mbstring/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-memcache/now 8.2-5+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2-5+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-mysql/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-opcache/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-pspell/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-readline/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-redis/now 6.3.0-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 6.3.0-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-soap/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-sqlite3/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-tidy/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-xml/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1-zip/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.1/now 8.1.34-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 8.1.34-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-apcu/now 5.1.28-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 5.1.28-1+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-bcmath/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-bz2/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-cgi/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-cli/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-common/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-curl/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-fpm/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-gd/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-gmp/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-igbinary/now 3.2.16-6+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 3.2.16-6+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-imap/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-intl/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-mbstring/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-memcache/now 8.2-5+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2-5+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-mysql/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-opcache/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-phpdbg/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-pspell/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-readline/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-redis/now 6.3.0-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 6.3.0-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-soap/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-sqlite3/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-tidy/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-xml/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2-zip/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.2/now 8.2.30-3+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 all [installed,upgradable to: 8.2.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-bcmath/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-bz2/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-cli/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-common/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-gmp/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-mbstring/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-opcache/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-phpdbg/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-readline/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.4-xml/now 8.4.18-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.4.18-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.5-cli/now 8.5.3-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.5.3-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.5-common/now 8.5.3-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.5.3-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.5-phpdbg/now 8.5.3-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.5.3-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]
php8.5-readline/now 8.5.3-2+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 8.5.3-2+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1]

Is there a command which will handle all these upgrades at once?

till · Feb 19, 2026

Please see below:

Yes — once the correct noble-compatible repo is in place (typically ppandrej/php) the “upgrade everything from ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 to ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1” step is basically just a dist-upgrade.

One command that upgrades them all
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

That will pull in the …+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 builds for all installed Sury/PPA packages that have noble versions available, and it will also resolve dependency changes (that’s why full-upgrade / dist-upgrade is the right tool, not plain upgrade).

If you prefer apt-get:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If it still refuses (very common: “held” packages)
Check and unhold, then rerun full-upgrade:

apt-mark showhold
sudo apt-mark unhold 'php*' 'libgd3' 'libpcre3' 2>/dev/null
sudo apt full-upgrade

Why your grep only showed the GPG file
This line:

grep: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debsuryorg-archive.gpg: binary file matches

just means there’s a keyring file containing the word “sury”. It does not prove you still have a Sury source list enabled.

To find the actual repo entries, use:

grep -R --line-number --no-messages -E "sury|ondrej|ppa\.launchpad|packages\.sury\.org" /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

One more important note from your output
You have:

libpcre3 ... [installed,local]

“local” usually means no repository currently provides that exact package/version (often because the old jammy repo was removed before the noble one was added). After adding the correct PPA and running full-upgrade, that typically flips back to a normal repo-provided package.

If after full-upgrade you still see ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 on installed packages, paste the output of:

apt-cache policy php8.3-common libgd3 libpcre3

and I can tell you exactly which repo is still “winning” and what needs pinning/removal.
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Instanerious · Feb 19, 2026

Here's the output of the apt-cache command.

Code:

$ apt-cache policy php8.3-common libgd3 libpcre3
php8.3-common:
  Installed: 8.3.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 8.3.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 8.3.30-3+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.6 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages
     8.3.6-0maysync1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
libgd3:
  Installed: 2.3.3-13+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 2.3.3-13+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.3-13+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.3.3-9ubuntu5 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
libpcre3:
  Installed: 2:8.45-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 2:8.45-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 2:8.45-1+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:8.39-15build1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages

till · Feb 19, 2026

This output tells the whole story.

php8.3-common and libgd3 are already correctly on the noble Ondřej PPA ✅

libpcre3 is the odd one out: it’s installed from the old jammy Sury build, and now it shows as “local” (only /var/lib/dpkg/status), meaning no enabled repo provides that version anymore.

That’s why it sticks.

Why libpcre3 won’t “upgrade”
On Ubuntu 24.04, the system PCRE library is PCRE2, and libpcre3 lives in universe and may not be part of what your current upgrade path touched. So apt sees:

installed: 8.45 ... ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury... (but “local”)

available in noble: 8.39-15build1 (older Ubuntu package)

So the fix is simply: replace the leftover local jammy build with the noble package.

Fix libpcre3 (safe, single command)
sudo apt install --reinstall libpcre3=2:8.39-15build1

If it complains about dependencies, use the more general “allow downgrade” form:

sudo apt install --allow-downgrades --reinstall libpcre3

Then confirm:

apt-cache policy libpcre3

You should see Installed = Candidate = 2:8.39-15build1 from noble/universe.

Now: install your PHP 8.3 extensions (should work)
sudo apt install php8.3-bcmath php8.3-bz2 php8.3-gmp php8.3-imagick

One command to mop up anything else similar
After the libpcre3 fix, run:

sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt autoremove

Optional: find other “local” leftovers
This is a good way to detect packages that are no longer in any repo (common after a release upgrade + repo change):

apt list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep '\[installed,local\]'

If you paste that output (if any), I can tell you which ones are safe to downgrade/reinstall vs. should be removed.
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Instanerious · Feb 19, 2026

Thanks, @till. Here's the output of that apt list command.

Code:

$ apt list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep '\[installed,local\]'
goaccess/now 1:1.9.3-focal amd64 [installed,local]
libffi7/now 3.3-5ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,local]
libprocps8/now 2:3.3.17-6ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed,local]
libruby2.7/now 2.7.0-5ubuntu1.12 amd64 [installed,local]
libruby3.0/now 3.0.2-7ubuntu2.11 amd64 [installed,local]
libssl1.1/now 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.22 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-headers-5.15.0-170-generic/now 5.15.0-170.180 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-headers-5.15.0-170/now 5.15.0-170.180 all [installed,local]
linux-image-5.15.0-170-generic/now 5.15.0-170.180 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-modules-5.15.0-170-generic/now 5.15.0-170.180 amd64 [installed,local]
linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-170-generic/now 5.15.0-170.180 amd64 [installed,local]
mime-support/now 3.66 all [installed,local]

till · Feb 19, 2026

And you ran the other suggested commands? At least your PHP should be fixed now.

Instanerious · Feb 19, 2026

till said: ↑

And you ran the other suggested commands? At least your PHP should be fixed now.
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Pardon me, yes, I did run the other commands, and running Nextcloud on PHP 8.3 rather than 8.2 appears to work successfully now.

Instanerious · Feb 19, 2026

Do you think I need to do anything about the other installed ubuntu22 packages in that list?

till · Feb 19, 2026

I think you can leave it like this.

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