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I installed a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 on my laptop. Like I usually do, I install the packages I need for Web development, which are nginx, php5-fpm, mysql, php5-mysql, php5-mcrypt and a few others.

After editing some configuration files, this usually works.

But today, since 13.10, an error appears instead of the Web page I expected.

Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.

The package php5-mcrypt has been installed and reinstalled.

The command php -m doesn't seem to show mcrypt.

Any idea where the problem could come from? I've done this setup many times and it always worked.

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    This is a bug report, ideally, and you should report the bug against php5-mcrypt with ubuntu-bug php5-mcrypt.
    – Thomas Ward ♦
    Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 1:14
  • @Marc-François there is a typo in your edit to the accepted answer by Tom, instead of mods-avalaible it should be mods-available.
    – karel
    Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 4:02
  • thx god, i thought im the only one having this issue..it drive me nuts...
    – slier
    Commented Oct 19, 2013 at 16:17
  • This is a bug in php-mcrypt bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-mcrypt/+bug/1240590
    – Braiam
    Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 10:49

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I had the same problem after I upgraded to 13.10 this evening. Apparently this is a genuine Ubuntu 13.10 bug: “phpmyadmin do not recognize php5-mcrypt”. The PHP modules got moved from the conf.d directory to the mods-available directory, and the mcrypt module got left behind.

To fix it I put a symlink to the mcrypt.ini file in the PHP config.

Apache

If you use Apache (rather than php-fpm):

sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini
sudo service apache2 restart

php-fpm

Or for php-fpm (rather than Apache):

  1. Make symbolic link to ini files in mods-available 

    sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini

  2. Enable mods 

    sudo php5enmod mcrypt

  3. Restart FPM 

    sudo service php5-fpm restart
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    Sorry, I do not use Apache. Your other solution for PHP-FPM didn't work.
    – Marc-François
    Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 1:25
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    You were almost right. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-mcrypt/+bug/1241286
    – Marc-François
    Commented Oct 18, 2013 at 3:30
  • oh my god thank you so much..i been trying for all solution i can found online but up to no avail..it drive me nuts..i almost give up..thx u
    – slier
    Commented Oct 19, 2013 at 16:25
  • Wow... I had been fiddling with laravel for the past 2 days... just wow! Thank you Tom! Love the open source community
    – Rixhers Ajazi
    Commented Dec 15, 2013 at 2:21
  • This doesn't seem to be required for 14.04 now. Still have to enable it though.
    – CMCDragonkai
    Commented Jun 10, 2014 at 9:53
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Or, use:

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt

Im not sure of this will work on standard php installs - I installed php 5.5.7 using the package from:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
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