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php7.4 sql Error - Wordpress site down now.

Siiigh. First off, I’m not good at this, for the record. Second I followed the DO tutorial for updating php to 7.4 But now my sql is just gone and unavailable.

E: Unable to locate package php7.4-mysql E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘php7.4-mysql’ E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘php7.4-mysql’

So naturally my wordpress site doesn’t work now.

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.

I need help. Badly.

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Bobby Iliev • November 13, 2021

Hi there,

Can you confirm the exact Ubuntu version that you are running? You can check that with:

cat /etc/os-release

Feel free to share the output here.

Also which tutorial exactly did you follow and Are you using the ppa:ondrej/php repository?

If this is the case, going through the available PHP 7.4 packages on the repository here:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php7.4/

It looks like that php7.4-mysql package is not available for Ubuntu 20.10.

I could suggest one of the following things:

  • Revert back to the old PHP version that you were using
  • If you are on Ubuntu 20.04 you could try upgrading to 21.04 which seems to have the package.
  • Alternatively, revert to a backup or a snapshot so that you could get your website up and running again as it was with the old version.

Let me know how it goes.

Best, Bobby

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