[Owncloud] PHP mb multibyte error after git update

Klaas Freitag freitag at kde.org
Sun Oct 23 17:56:53 UTC 2011


Hi
> I updated ownCloud to the latest version from git to see if the
> calendar has been improved, but now get this error when I enter my
> ownCloud URL:
> 
> "PHP module mb multibyte not installed."
> 
> ownCloud was working for me before, so how do I fix this? I have no
> idea what the mb multibyte module is or how it should be installed. Is
> this a new prerequisite for running ownCloud?
Its an additonal php module that works with multibyte strings which are used 
for language support.

You have to install an additional package, in the openSUSE case its called
php5-mbstring, probably similar for other distros. After a restart of apache 
you should be up again.

regards,
Klaas



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