problems with installing wordpress 2.0

[Benjamin Haubeck]

On 1/14/06, Ronny Haryanto <ronnylist at haryan.to> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 21:37, Benjamin Haubeck wrote:
> > i have Ubuntu Hoary on my Home-Server and wanted to try WordPress 2.0.
> > After installing PHP and MySQL and creating the Database for WordPress
> > i get this error when i am switching with my browser in the
> > wordpress-directory:
> >
> > Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is
> > required for WordPress.
> >
> > ii  php4-mysql     4.3.10-10ubunt MySQL module for php4
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> If you create a php file containing only:
>
>         <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>
> and view it from a browser, you could see whether the php mysql extension is
> loaded or not.
>
> If it's not loaded, the only thing I can think of right now is to restart
> apache, and try again. I'm using php5, and php-mysql support works out of the
> box, so I don't know if it's any different with php4.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Ronny
>

i created the file and changed the permissions but it isn´t be
interpreted as an php-file. the browser shows me only the text.
so i assume that, the php mysql - extension is not loaded ...

do you have another hint for me?

ben