dan wrote:
>david kramer wrote:
>> dan moylan wrote:
>>> heretofor i have always created my own html pages, either
>>> with vi or via perl scripts, but intriqued by the recent
>>> posts about drupal, i thought i might give it a try.
>>>
>>> i read install.txt and install.mysql.txt and did my best to
>>> follow the directions therein, but the end result, when i
>>> put it in the browser window was:
>>>
>>>   We were unable to use the MySQL database because the MySQL
>>>   extension for PHP is not installed. Check your PHP.ini to
>>>   see how you can enable it.

>> Do you have the package php5-mysql installed?

>yes, mysql -V gives:

>  mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for redhat-linux-gnu
       (i686) using readline 5.0

sorry, it wasn't (reading more closely).

php-mysql-5.1.6-3 is now installed -- is that what you meant?

result still the same.

dan

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