These are the packages I installed to get myphpadmin and phpsyslog-ng working. Use yum to get these and do some googling and man page reading. [root@linux1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep php php-5.1.4-1 php-gd-5.1.4-1 php-devel-5.1.4-1 php-mysql-5.1.4-1 php-pear-1.4.9-1 php-mbstring-5.1.4-1 php-ldap-5.1.4-1 php-pdo-5.1.4-1 [root@linux1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep mysql php-mysql-5.1.4-1 mysql-administrator-1.1.6-3.fc5 mysql-devel-5.0.21-2.FC5.1 mysql-gui-common-1.1.6-3.fc5 mysql-server-5.0.21-2.FC5.1 mysql-5.0.21-2.FC5.1