Not able to enable pdo_mysql extension or not able to install

Question

I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS , Using PHP version 5.6 i have required 5.6 version only not required php latest version

I tried to install or tried to enable but not working:

 sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-mysql

E: Package 'php5-mysql' has no installation candidate

I am getting below error.

pdo_mysql extension is not installed

Solution 1

sudo apt-get install php-pdo-mysql

Solution 2

Thanks for your help, i have resolved issue.

I have executed below commands in terminal.

sudo a2dismod php7.0
sudo a2enmod php5.6
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart

Thanks,

Comments

[George Udosen]

Which is it php5-mysql or pdo_mysql?

[shyam]

Already installed and done downgrade sudo a2dismod php7.0 sudo a2enmod php5.6 sudo service apache2 restart

[Alex Austin]

did you do apt update?

[shyam]

Hi Vichu, Not working tried change the cd /etc/php/5.6/apache2 nano php.ini but not working

[Alex Austin]

what is the output of php -m?

[shyam]

Alex, Here is output calendar Core ctype curl date dom exif fileinfo filter ftp gd gettext hash iconv json libxml mbstring mcrypt mysqli mysqlnd openssl pcntl pcre PDO pdo_mysql Phar posix readline Reflection session shmop SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter xsl Zend OPcache zlib

[Alex Austin]

have you tried apt-get install pdo-mysql?

[damadam]

Can you provide more explanation about what is php-pdo-mysqlpackage? for example, what contains that package, ...