<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>You can also try install via Synaptic then click Marked by Task and select LAMP Server. Hope that helps.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Quoting George Rodgers-Clark <<a href="mailto:georger@depiction.com">georger@depiction.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> I'm doing a new install on an Ubuntu 8.04 server w/PHP5, MySQL server<br>
> and apache2. I'm getting the "We're unable to use the MySQL database<br>
> because the MySQL extension for PHP is not installed" error. If found<br>
> the "extension=mysql.so" statement in the php.ini file and activated<br>
> it, but find no "mysql.so" file on the server (even after installing<br>
> mysql-client per a couple of forum/site recommendations. Any ideas?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>You have to install the extension separately. PHP can no longer<br>
distribute it.<br>
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