Installing mbstring on Fedora Core 6

Somehow I missed this error on my phpMyAdmin page on my LAMP test server.

The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.

I don't think it will matter too much(it's only test machine), but I've decided to install it anyway.

BTW, I'm running:

• Fedora Core 6 / Kernel 2.6.20
• Apache 2.2.0
• PHP 5.1.6

The easiest way to enable the mbstring on the Fedora is

 $ yum install php-mbstring

Done. No more error message.

Update: Somehow yum didn't found any update for PHP but 5.2.1 came out few months ago. I wonder I can upgrade from PHP source code without any conflict on yum.