On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:06:13PM EST, Roger wrote:

Thank you to all who replied. The problem was a missing address in the Ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list in the security section.

I was going to suggest that. You just beat me to it.. :-)

I added the missing line then apt-get / synaptic had no problems. It found and installed php-mysql and drupal now works well and the update manager now finds it so no need for command line. Now to get a battery for the old laptop and I'm away.

Nice...!

Thanks again

Roger, you probably should ‘reply’ to the original thread rather than creating new ones. Although I'm since I am new to this list, I may not realize all the implications and this may be due to the way you access it.

Cheers,

cj