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I am about to use phpmyadmin on Ubuntu 16.04. But it shows that the page is not working. the error log says error 500 

PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required '/usr/share/php/php-gettext/gettext.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/select_lang.lib.php on line 477

At first it says that the mysqli|mysql extension is missing. but after sleepless hours I forget what I've been done to it. I am using php7.

Jorge Castro
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kepalabotak
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sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext

or simply:

sudo apt-get install php-gettext

and then:

sudo service apache2 restart

This has been reported at this bug:

Franc Drobnič
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user534575
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You need to install php-gettext , Install it using 

 sudo apt-get install php-gettext
Rahul K Jha
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I lost hours to solve this problem. Just install php-mbstring, php7.0-mbstring and php-gettext. That's it.

You can do that by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext
Dan
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Mich. Gio.
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  • I haven't installed/tried 16.04 yet, but I would assume installing php-mbstring would automatically install php7-mbstring if you have php7 installed. – Dan Apr 19 '16 at 16:09
  • Maybe you are right; maybe that's just a metapacket. – Mich. Gio. Apr 19 '16 at 16:23
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In my case, my problem was with the folder creation. When I was installing the php-gettext lib with:

sudo apt-get install php-gettext

Two folders are created in usr/share/php

Folder 1 - usr/share/php/php-gettext
Folder 2 - usr/share/php/php-phpgettext

And inside the first folder some symbolic links to the second folder.

I deleted the first folder with:

sudo rm -r usr/share/php/php-gettext

And then copy the php-php-gettext folder to php-gettext with:

sudo cp -r php-php-gettext php-gettext

Now my phpmyadmin works.

Zanna
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RafaelFigueiredo
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Try using: 

sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext
Peter Warrington
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David Rockefeller
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Use Synaptic Package Manager, install php7.0-mbstring, and do sudo service apache2 restart.

Videonauth
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Cholis
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I Try this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
and set socket on TCP/IP. After the
sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext
sudo service apache2 restart

user2517728
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If you installed phpymadmin from the archives, php-gettext is a dependency and would be automatically installed.

nacc
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Run

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext

sudo service apache2 restart

http://www.dailytechnoblog.com/how-to-resolve-phpmyadmin-error-the-mbstring-extension-is-missing-please-check-your-php-configuration/

Sameer
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