Zabbix 5 does not work with PHP 5.6?

[cesarsj]

In my company we only work with LTS version software; and most server OS is Slackware 14.2, which has only PHP 5.6 available. PHP 7 is for Slackware Current. Will I have to wait to release Slackware 15 to install Zabbix 5?

[phoenixrising]

I have installed Zabbix 3.0.1 in my Ubuntu server, but it seems that 16.04 comes with PHP7.0 installed. When I try to use apt-get to install the front end (sudo apt-get install zabbix-frontend-php) I get the following messages:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
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[kevster]

Hi,

I am trying to install Zabbix 3 on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine and apt-get is giving me the message that it cannot install PHP5 (which I cannot find anywhere).

I have already installed the LAMP stack (Apache2, MySQL5, PHP7) and tested it. I tried downgrading PHP7...