mbstring on RHEL, download and install
March 12th, 2007 by Anthony Curreri
Well I installed and updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS, and installed PHPMyAdmin.
But wait! PHPMyAdmin says:
The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.
I need this mbstring package. How do I get it? Well it’s apparently really simple. People in the I-net’s say: “Just install the php-mbstring’s package”. Well that sounds easy, but where can I download the rpm? I tried a bunch of rpm’s, to no avail. I tried to find an apt rpm, so that I could use apt-get to install it on RHEL, but NO. I went into the up2date gui a few times, pleading with it to install this package, as it surely knows where to get it. But it doesn’t let you search for packages.
The solution, use up2date from RHEL’s command line to download the php-mbstring package. Open a terminal, and run:
up2date -i php-mbstring
Now open up PHPMyAdmin again, and it won’t complain.
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How do you access RHEL’s command line
There are lots of ways. I use putty to gain access remotely via ssh, this drops me right into a command line. You are probably using a GUI to access it, but the menus are all going to be a little different so I can’t say exactly. Look for an icon called “something terminal” or “system console” or something like that. You can also try hitting ctrl+alt+1. This should hide the GUI and bring you to a command line. ctrl+alt+5 or 6 should bring you back to the GUI.