[Admin]: Installation > Run Migrations: "Could not find driver" errors

[SubSonicSoftware]

Description

When I get to the part in the installation instructions where I run this command:
php artisan migrate

I get 2 highlighted blocks of errors (see attached screenshot).

Steps to reproduce

1. Follow instructions until the point described.

Loops version

unknown, current as of 2026-01-31

Acknowledgements

Yes

[dansup]

@SubSonicSoftware Do you have the mysql_pdo.so php extension installed and enabled?

[SubSonicSoftware]

If I try to install php8.3-pdo explicitly it wants to remove a ton of node packages, so I don't want to do that. Especially when php8.3-common provides php-pdo when I do 'aptitude show php8.3-common'.

So I found and edited php.ini in /etc/php/8.3/cli/ & uncommented extension=pdo_mysql, rebooted, & I still get the same errors.

[dansup]

If I try to install php8.3-pdo explicitly it wants to remove a ton of node packages, so I don't want to do that. Especially when php8.3-common provides php-pdo when I do 'aptitude show php8.3-common'.

So I found and edited php.ini in /etc/php/8.3/cli/ & uncommented extension=pdo_mysql, rebooted, & I still get the same errors.

You need to uncomment it in /etc/php/8.3/fpm/ as well.

[dansup]

@SubSonicSoftware Let me know if that does or doesn't work for you.