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Prabodhana's avatar

php artisan migrate error manjaro linux

Im using laravel in manjaro linux.. if I excute php artisan migrate command it gives me this erro how I fix this. also Im already install xampp thank you..

error :

Illuminate\Database\QueryException  : could not find driver (SQL: select * from     information_schema.tables where table_schema = nws and table_name = migrations and t    able_type = 'BASE TABLE')

at /run/media/snake/Entertainment/VS/linuxTest/Nurses/NW/vendor/laravel/framework/src/  Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:664
    660|         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
    661|         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
    662|         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
 663|         catch (Exception $e) {
> 664|             throw new QueryException(
    665|                 $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
    666|             );
    667|         }
    668|
Exception trace:

    1   PDOException::("could not find driver")
    run/media/snake/Entertainment/VS/linuxTest/Nurses/NW/vendor/laravel/framework/src/
    lluminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php:70

      2 PDO::__construct("mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=3306;dbname=nws", "root", "", [])
    /run/media/snake/Entertainment/VS/linuxTest/Nurses/NW/vendor/laravel/framework/src/
    Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php:70

    Please use the argument -v to see more details.
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elgammal's avatar

make your that you have installed php-mysql ext. by clii

for me I'm using ubuntu : sudo apt-get install php-mysql that is working good.

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