Unable to successfully install PHP 7.4 Zip extension on Ubuntu 20.04

Question

While running sudo apt-get install php7.4-zip, I encountered the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: php7.4-zip: Depends on php7.4-common (=7.4.3-4ubuntu2.12), but to install version 7.4.10-1 ubuntu18.04.1 deb.sury.org 1 E: The problem cannot be corrected. There are corrupt packages on your system.

The page in the PHP manual about installing the Zip extension is as follows:

Starting with PHP 7.4.0, in order to use these functions, you must compile PHP with zip support using the --with-zip configuration option. Previously, zip support had to be enabled using the --enable-zip configuration option. Starting with PHP 7.4.0, the bundled libzip has been removed.

Is there any direct way to install the Zip extension on my system?

Update: Additional information:

• dpkg --get-selections | grep holdReturns packages that are not retained.
• sudo apt autoremove removed some packages, but did not change the message returned by sudo apt install php7.4-zip.

Answer 1

The following steps work fine on my Ubunut 22 and php7.4. Add PPA to get PHP 7.4 which also contains other required PHP extensions.

apt install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php  
apt update

You can then install the extension

apt install php7.4-zip