Maybe your host is not install pdo extension yet.

Use "yum install php-pdo" and "yum install php-pdo_mysql" command to install it

Then add these line into you php.ini file

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

p/s: Sorry for my bad English

I can't run this command on ubuntu. Please help me.

I try sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-mysql, but now it show

 [PDOException]                                                               
  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '  
  /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)             

me too i get the same problem

same problem occurs here.

Do anyone solved this problem?

sometimes in you db.config you cannot use locahost as one of the params (host, i believe) so try 127.0.0.1 instead

also in command line do mysql -u username -h localhost -p <enter password>

if this works then use these details in laravel config..

I have the same problem, but solved. It's caused because we installed other php binary accidentally and the system uses that instead of LAMPP's php binary.

Here is my solution: Make sure your php binary is point to /opt/lampp/bin/php or /opt/lampp/bin/php-5.x.x by running the command "which php". If your php was pointed to /usr/bin/php, make sure it's a symlink of /opt/lampp/bin/php OR /opt/lampp/bin/php-5.x.x

try this:

(in case: installing migrate) /opt/lampp/bin/php artisan migrate:install

you'll not see any erros in case you've updated the .env file to your own configuration

I think its your php version problem. upgrade your php version

yuomtheara said:

I try sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-mysql, but now it show

[PDOException]                                                               
 SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '  
 /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)             

You just change hostname from .env or config/database.php from localhost to 127.0.0.1