Week 8 - Laravel Database connection driver issue

[mgarimelHES]

Hi,

I am not sure if anyone is facing this issue, I am following the lecture notes (part-5) for database set up and ran into the issue in 'practice-3'

1. Changes to env

2. Changes to database and user 'hes' is able to connect from CLI

3. Changes to PracticeController.php are done

4. It is failing with the following error -

[susanBuck]

@mgarimelHES -

Try running the following command, swapping 8.x with whatever version major/minor version you see when you run php --version:

> sudo apt-get install php8.x-mysql

[mgarimelHES]

I am getting the following error after running the above command -

[susanBuck]

Hi @mgarimelHES - You have to swap 8.x with whatever major/minor version you see when you run php --version.

For example, if you see something like version 8.1.3 when you run php --version, the command would be:

> sudo apt-get install php8.1-mysql

If it's some version of 8.0.* the command would look like this:

> sudo apt-get install php8.0-mysql

[susanBuck]

Please run just the following (8.0 vs 8.0.16):

> sudo apt-get install php8.0-mysql

[mgarimelHES]

Thanks, this sudo apt-get install php8.0-mysql statement resolved my issue.

Appreciate your help

[susanBuck]

I'm going to re-open this issue just in case other students face this problem this week. Thanks for posting, @mgarimelHES.