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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.

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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:

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  • I am setting up a server for the first time and I had the same issue as the op, except that I wasn't upgrading it was a fresh install of 16.04. The same issue however, and this fixed the problem. Thank you!
    – Darren Haynes
    May 2, 2016 at 2:58
  • Thanks you, I had the same problem, it worked, +1 from me.
    – user420734
    Jul 15, 2016 at 16:51
  • sudo apt install php-gettext is enough. This installs the others.
    – B. Shea
    Oct 25, 2016 at 17:40
  • This doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04. Any other ideas?
    – EODCraft Staff
    May 9, 2018 at 14:42
  • Found it! You have to Manually add the Repository. askubuntu.com/a/715947/619039
    – EODCraft Staff
    May 9, 2018 at 15:11
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You need to install php-gettext , Install it using 

 sudo apt-get install php-gettext
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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
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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, 2016 at 16:09
  • Maybe you are right; maybe that's just a metapacket.
    – Mich. Gio.
    Apr 19, 2016 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.

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Try using: 

sudo apt-get install php-mbstring php7.0-mbstring php-gettext
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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

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Use Synaptic Package Manager, install php7.0-mbstring, and do sudo service apache2 restart.

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

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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/

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