newly minted ubuntu trusty with db server mysql5.6.23 and concrete5 won't install:

An exception occurred while executing 'select pkgID, pkgName, pkgIsInstalled, pkgDescription, pkgVersion, pkgHandle, pkgDateInstalled from Packages where pkgIsInstalled = ? order by pkgID asc' with params [1]: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'concrete5.packages' doesn't exist.

I've already set mysql parameters 'lower_case_table_names => 1, collation_connection => utf8_general_ci. The database was created with:

CREATE DATABASE `concrete5` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */;

BTW, The page athttp://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/5.7/background/mi... says "While there are some great benefits to this approach, it is completely new and will be foreign to Concrete5 developers. If you are looking for config/site.php – it is gone! Instead, database settings for an installed Concrete5 site can be found in application/config/database.php."

This distribution has no files in application/config? I was getting redirected to /index.php/install until I created the database.php file by scraping it from an example.

Db config is using the root creds and it seems like it can connect ok. I'm getting a rendered html page with the db error, just seems the code is issuing a query before any tables are created. The database is totally empty and has nothing in it before and after attempting to load the index page.

I'd say this build is fubar'd but I'd expect to see lots of people with the same problem if that were the case, so I must have done something wrong?

mysql> show variables like 'char%';
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /rdsdbbin/mysql-5.6.23.R1/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> show variables like 'coll%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+