I don't know about Drupal package which comes with Debian, but it seems from what you say that instructions are the same as in standard drupal and not really ideal for your installation. <div><br></div><div>Anyways, googling your error message brings me to this:<div>
<a href="http://www.mkyong.com/web-development/drupal-error-php-installation-currently-does-not-support-mysql/">http://www.mkyong.com/web-development/drupal-error-php-installation-currently-does-not-support-mysql/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It's not quite the same, but maybe close enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you know where your settings.php file is in the first place. If not, maybe use</div><div>$ locate sites/default/settings.php</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you read settings.php carefully, the comments there should tell you what to do.</div><div>I guess you need to set the database settings $db_url</div><div><br></div><div>Other things that come to mind are checking if mysqls really runs and if it is accessible from php (via phpinfo()).</div>
<div><br></div><div>hope that helps</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mkyong.com/web-development/drupal-error-php-installation-currently-does-not-support-mysql/"></a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Gary Roach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary719_list1@verizon.net">gary719_list1@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I am trying to get a Debian Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP5 system going.
All of the instructions that I find assume that I am installing from a
tar file or some such. Debian installs everything, including the config
files, automatically. The Dbian installation differs significantly from
the documentation. I finally got Apache2, MySQL and
/drupal6/install.php running but immediately got the install.php error
shown below.<br>
<h2>Choose language</h2>
<h3>The following error must be resolved before you can continue the
installation process:</h3>
<div><font color="#ff0000">In your <em>./sites/default/settings.php</em>
file you have configured Drupal to use a <em></em> server, however
your PHP installation currently does not support this database type.</font></div>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&locale=en" target="_blank">Install
Drupal in English</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&localize=true" target="_blank">Learn
how to install Drupal in other languages</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Please check the error messages and <a href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default" target="_blank">try again</a>.<br>
</p>
<p>When I finally found settings.php, the file had been automatically
generated by the .deb installation script. There is nothing obviously
wrong with it. Debian notes say to use install.php at this point to
populate the data tables. Obviously this is not going to happen until
the above error is fixed. <br>
</p>
<p>Any suggestions.<br>
</p>
<p>Gary R.<br>
</p>
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