php extension mcrypt must be loaded

Question

When I tried to install Magento on ubuntu but I get this error at the config: php extension mcrypt must be loaded. But when I tried curl: : sudo apt-get install php5-curl it worked but I wanted to do it with mcrypt. How can I do this?

Answer 1

when you run sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt in Ubuntu it doesn't install the extension into the mods-available. You'll have to symlink it. 

sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini

Then enable the extension and restart Apache.

sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 reload

I hope this helps you.