To all,

I re-installed PHP5 on my server just to stay updated. However, after that reinstall, everywhere on my sites where I use function:

json_decode(...

Executions breaks. (It did not with the previous PHP install.)

The error i am getting is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decode() in /home/username/public/example.com/public/somefile.php on line 155

--- I have attempted the following, with following results ---

I tried sudo apt-get install php5-json

However, it did not work (please see log below)

root@lion:/# sudo apt-get install php5-json
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package php5-json is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'php5-json' has no installation candidate


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Has anyone ever experienced this problem before?

Can anyone help with what could be wrong? How to bring json_decode back?

How did you "reinstall" php5?