Package: phpmyadmin Version: 4:4.5.5.1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I encountered two problems installing phpmyadmin on a new system. After install, web application gave error 500, with logged message: [Tue Mar 29 19:23:26.595905 2016] [:error] [pid 16189] [client ::1:33050] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/usr/share/php/php-gettext/gettext.inc' (include_path='.') in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/select_lang.lib.php on line 477 ==> Fixed by: sudo apt-get install php-gettext After that fix, web application ran but displayed error screen: phpMyAdmin - Error The mysqli|mysql extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. See our documentation for more information. ==> Fixed by: sudo apt-get purge php7.0-mysql ; sudo apt-get install php5-mysql Now my phpmyadmin installation is working. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages phpmyadmin depends on: ii dbconfig-common 2.0.4 ii dbconfig-mysql 2.0.4 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.3.6-2 ii perl 5.22.1-9 ii php-gettext 1.0.11-2 ii php-phpseclib 2.0.1-2 ii php5 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php5-cli 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php5-common 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php5-json 1.3.7-1 ii php5-mysql 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php7.0-cli 7.0.4-6 ii php7.0-common [php-gettext] 7.0.4-6 ii php7.0-json 7.0.4-6 ii php7.0-xml 7.0.4-6 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages phpmyadmin recommends: ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.18-1 ii mysql-client-5.6 [virtual-mysql-client] 5.6.28-1 ii php-tcpdf 6.2.12+dfsg2-1 ii php5-common 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php5-gd 5.6.19+dfsg-2 ii php7.0-common 7.0.4-6 ii php7.0-gd 7.0.4-6 Versions of packages phpmyadmin suggests: ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.0.1esr-1 ii google-chrome-beta [www-browser] 50.0.2661.49-1 ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:15.08.3-1 ii mysql-server 5.6.28-1 ii mysql-server-5.6 [virtual-mysql-server] 5.6.28-1 -- debconf information: phpmyadmin/setup-username: admin phpmyadmin/remote/host: localhost phpmyadmin/install-error: abort phpmyadmin/upgrade-error: abort phpmyadmin/database-type: mysql * phpmyadmin/dbconfig-install: true phpmyadmin/purge: false phpmyadmin/db/dbname: phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/internal/skip-preseed: false phpmyadmin/mysql/method: Unix socket phpmyadmin/remove-error: abort phpmyadmin/dbconfig-reinstall: false phpmyadmin/remote/port: * phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver: apache2 * phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-user: debian-sys-maint phpmyadmin/passwords-do-not-match: phpmyadmin/internal/reconfiguring: false phpmyadmin/db/app-user: phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/remote/newhost: phpmyadmin/missing-db-package-error: abort phpmyadmin/dbconfig-upgrade: true phpmyadmin/dbconfig-remove: true phpmyadmin/upgrade-backup: true