[support] Installation Failure

[Mark Phillips]

I realize this is a dumb question after searching the forums and drupal site, 
but I get this error message after installing drupal and trying to access it 
for the first time:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() 
in /var/www/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31

According to what I read on the drupal site, this is caused by a missing myslq 
module for php. However, I installed the php5-mysql package (I am running 
debian) along with php5. 

I am new to php as well, so I am not sure how to debug this problem. 

I am trying to run drupal 4.6.6, mysql 4.0.24, and php5 on linux (debian) 
kernel 2.24.

I believe I set up the mysql database correctly - at least there are a lot of 
tables in my drupal database!

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
602 524-0376
480 945-9197 fax