[Mediawiki-l] Fatal error setting up 1.6.7

[Ashar Voultoiz]

John Wiedenhoeft wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> trying to setup 1.6.7 I followed the installation guide provided on the
> mediawiki website. During configuration, I get the following error:
<snip>
>   * Database type: mysql
> 
> Fatal error: Unknown function: mysql_get_client_info()
> in /var/www/mediawiki/config/index.php on line 508
> ==========================================================================
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu Dapper, but I installed following the Debian guide, as
> the Ubuntu package is pretty old, and my data is dumped to xml, which I
> think I cannot restore using this old version.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?

You are missing php-mysql package. With ubuntu it should be something like:

$ sudo apt-get install php4-mysql
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

:)

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