WordPress – Error when install WordPress with mariadb “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”

Make sure that MySQL module for php (php-mysql) is installed:

rpm -qa | grep mysql

and you have following in /etc/php.d/mysql.ini or /etc/php.ini:

extension=mysql.so

Probably what I'd do is first find all the easily identifiable python packages:

 rpm -qa | grep python

Then erase them using

 rpm --erase pkg1 ... pkgn

If there are dependencies flagged, then if you can include these in the packages to be deleted.

You CAN override the dependency checks by including the

 --nodeps

flag after the --erase flag on the rpm command line. Not always recommended of course but sometimes necessary.

Then with all the packages downloaded from what ever source you have you then do:

 rpm --install pkg1 ... pkgn

Again, if possible satisfy all the dependencies. But you can override this behavior using the:

 --nodeps --force

flags after the --install flag. Again, not always recommended but sometimes necessary.