You don&#39;t say how you installed MySql, but this message would appear to indicate that MySql is not running. <br><br><div>On my Ubuntu laptop, from a terminal I did:</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ ps -ef | grep mysql</div>

<div>mysql    25011     1  1 07:21 ?        00:00:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld</div><div>1000     28598 28579  0 07:26 pts/1    00:00:00 grep mysql</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>So, first off, is it running?</div><div>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Roger <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arelem@bigpond.com">arelem@bigpond.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I&#39;ve just installed ubuntu 10.04 and drupal 6.19 on an old compaq<br>
Presario 2700 laptop<br>
Ubuntu uses apache2<br>
<br>
Installing Drupal I get an error, &#39;Web server does not appear to support<br>
database types. check with hosting provider.&#39;<br>
<br>
I have mysql 5 installed and the database set up as is on my desktop.<br>
  Why the message, what am I missing please?<br>
thanks<br>
Roger<br>
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