MySQL Forums :: Install & Repo :: Missing header files

Hello,

I am using Xubuntu 7.10 on my server. I am remotely administering it from my Ubuntu 7.10 machine over my lan. I installed PHP5 using apt-get install.

When I went to check to see if php and mysql were working together, PHP said undefined reference to mysql_connect so I googled it and then tried msql_connect. Same error message.

So then I found some articles saying that PHP5 is no longer bundled with MySQL support enabled by default. I found this site: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/faq.databases.php#faq.databases.mysql.php5
where it says to use the --with-mysql=/usr option when building PHP5. Problem was, apt-get automatically installed it for me. So I apt-get removed php, and then downloaded the tarball from php.net.

Then I ./configure --with-mysql=/usr but I get this:

configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under /usr.
Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!

So then I try to locate the MySQL header files myself, and am surprised to find that I CAN'T find them! I tried locate, slocate, whereis, I tried /usr, /usr/include, /usr/local, etc., and can't find them anywhere.

So I try apt-get install mysql, hit tab twice to see available packages beginning with mysql, and don't know what to do now. I searched the forum and didn't find any article relating to missing header files. I found a couple mysql header files in my php directory where I extracted the tarball to, but do I use these or does MySQL have its own header files?

I'm lost here. I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me here. Thanks in advance.