Your PHP MySQL library version differs from your MySQL server version

Question

I\'ve recently upgraded MySQL on my Debian 5.0.4 server to 5.1. Now phpMyAdmin shows the following warning:

Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from

Answer 1

I was seeing this in the phpMyAdmin console - I run Debian 8 on Google cloud and recently upgraded to mysql 5.7.21. I had to run the PHP NativeDriver to get this to subside

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd