MySQL not in the dropdown for new Accounts

[Colin Law]

On 11 March 2013 10:23, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11 March 2013 11:05, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 11 March 2013 09:16, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All
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>> > I am new to GNU Cash running 2.4.11 on Ubuntu and trying to create a new
>> > set of book.
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>> > I was to save the data in MySQL however the dropdown only allows me to
>> > select "XML".
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>> This can either be because the gnucash executable you are running has
>> not got mysql support, or your system has not got appropriate drivers
>> installed.  What Operating System are you running on and how did you
>> install gnucash?
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> I'm running the latest Ubuntu 12.10
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> I installed via
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> apt-get install gnucash

Try

sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql

Colin

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