phpMyAdmin not working

[Shadrack]

how frusterated I am. I'm not sure what I could have done that could have possibly broke this functionality, but for some reason I get a "missing php-mysql extension" if I try to logon to phpMyAdmin. I think it may have been an update for fedora core 2 that came on my system and broke it, as it has worked fine last I tried to access it but that was a week or two ago.

In any event.. so I'm trying to overcome this. I first try and install php5 from source. But I can't find apxs which is something that is required to load the mysql extensions anywhere on my system.. the default place for it should be /usr/sbin, but it isn't in there.

any help would be really appreciated.

-Nic

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oh yeah..other thing i've already tried:

installing php-mysql from the "Add/Remove Software" fc2 program. Says I need "php" for "php-odbc" and a list of others. PHP is checked and installed, however. If I try to uninstall php, i get that it is required for some of the things I have installed, so it won't let me.

I tried to install all the 'apr' stuff for the 'httpd-devel' pack which is where axsp is suppose to be, but ran into rpm hell.

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