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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

Wojtkovy
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    Possible duplicate of [phpMyAdmin mbstring error](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18599406/phpmyadmin-mbstring-error) – Script47 Jul 03 '18 at 10:56
  • You also need to install `mbstring` for php version 5 which is default in the system. Install as `apt-get install php4-mbstring` – Lovepreet Singh Jul 03 '18 at 10:59

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You need to install w.r.t your PHP version. 

sudo apt-get install php7.1-mbstring

Or you may specific php version in command

Naveed Ramzan
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  • I did it already, and after restart apache2 still the same problem – Wojtkovy Jul 03 '18 at 11:06
  • Then I am sure its version issue. Maybe you are using PHP version different than connected with Mbstring ? – Naveed Ramzan Jul 03 '18 at 11:08
  • After restarting web server, try to print phpinfo() and there you can see which version exactly you are using, where is its ini file and is mbstring connected or not – Naveed Ramzan Jul 03 '18 at 11:09
  • PHP Version 7.0.26-1 In php.ini I got: `;extension=php_mbstring.dll` `[mbstring] ;language for internal character representation. ;This affect mb_send_mail() and ;mbstring.detect_order. ;http://php.net/mbstring.language ;mbstring.language= Japanese` – Wojtkovy Jul 03 '18 at 11:15
  • You need to uncomment `mbstring.dll` line and then restart web server. – Naveed Ramzan Jul 03 '18 at 11:33
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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

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