Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

Question

I am trying to use the migrate function in Laravel 4 on OSX. However, I am getting the following error:

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Answer 1

For ubuntu try these steps if others are not working :

1. cd ~
2. sudo apt-get remove php5-mcrypt
3. sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
4. sudo php5enmod mcrypt
5. sudo service apache2 restart

Hope that will help. Thanks !