Why can't I install php-mysql?

In Windows I use Xampp. I have tried to install MySQL from the command-line and I can access MySQL through workbench software.

Now if I try to run Wordpress on my computer, I get an error that "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."

Someone help me to install MySQL extension(s) for my installation. If I try to install php-mysql:

 $ sudo apt-get install php-mysql

then I get this error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package php-mysql

Please someone help me to install MySQL extension. Most of the blogposts I have seen have this trick, but it's not working for me. The Ubuntu software center shows me that both MySQL server and client are both as installed.

4 Answers

The package is called php5-mysql in Ubuntu, not php-mysql.

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Easiest way to install LAMP on Ubuntu is using an APT task:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

^{The caret (^) is not a typo.}

It will select all the relevant packages for you. For your specific case is Dennis right, you're just missing the PHP5-MySQL bindings which you were installing with the wrong package name. Anyway, the task will make sure you'll have most common packages, including this one.

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If you do not know the exact name of the package you want to install you can run

sudo apt-get update
apt-cache search mysql

This also holds for other packages than mysql. For instance apt-cache search firefox.

Once the options listed, you can select your choice.

First you check for available versions of software:

sudo apt-cache search php-mysql

Then install the latest version from the list printed out from the previous command:

sudo install php7.4-mysql

If there was no package, try the following command and redo the above process:

sudo add-apt-repository universe

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