php artisan migrate

I am running this command from my linux distro. $ php artisan migrate

I have all the php installments there is (php5-mysql, php7-mysql inter alia) but i keep getting this ERROR:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException] could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where t able_schema = blog and table_name = migrations)

[Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOException] could not find driver

[PDOException] could not find driver

Could anyone please help a brother out??? pleaseeeee