phpmyadmin - mbstring extension is missing

Question

After I installed phpmyadmin, and run it with localhost/phpmyadmin I get error:

phpMyAdmin - Error The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

When I check php -m console displays that mbstring is already installed. PHP version: 7.2.4 Installed phpmyadmin via apt-get install phpmyadmin

In directory /etc/php I got 3 subfolders - 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Answer 1

You need to install wrt your PHP version.

sudo apt-get install php7.1-mbstring

Or you may specific php version in command

Answer 2

Had the same problem and worked for me after checking PHP version

php -v

which gave me :

PHP 7.2.13-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Dec  7 2018 08:07:36) ( NTS )

so I did

sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring

Thanks