phpmyadmin symlinks error after ubuntu upgrade

For others:

sudo apt-get install php-gettext

might be the answer (especially with php7 as it seems that this is not included by default, maybe because it is a pear extension).

For me the following solution solved the problem:

In my website conf file, I have the following section:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

    php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
    php_flag track_vars On
    php_flag register_globals Off
    php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen Off
    php_value include_path .
    php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/lib/phpmyadmin/tmp
    php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/
</IfModule>

The only change I've made since Ubuntu 13.04 install is include /usr/share/php/php-gettext/ in the open_basedir, and that did the trick.

If your open_basedir contains /usr/share/php/php-gettext/ already (as in my case) and you can't get it to work with the previous answers then do:

sudo rm /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/php-gettext/*

removes the symbolic links

sudo ln /usr/share/php/php-gettext/* /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/php-gettext

creates hard links

This makes phpmyadmin work again. Why it broke in 13.04 and the symbolic links aren't followed while the apache.conf says they should, remains a mystery to me.