The MySQL database is administered by text commands on the command line. Doing so is quite hard, and alternatively using applications that abstract the complexity of use. Some of these applications are programs installed on your machine, available in the C enter Ubuntu Software. On the other hand this PhpMyAdmin is a web application in order to administer the database server and make it through a browser.

With PhpMyAdmin can among other things create, view, edit, delete users, tables or databases from the server using only your web browser. All this makes this necessary tool in the administration of a server LAMP .

PhpMyAdmin is available in the official repositories of our Ubuntu. Rarely need to administer MySQL to use the latest version, so that available in the repositories meet our expectations.

Ubuntu 10.4 install our Lucid Lynx or Maverick Meerkat is simple. Open a terminal from Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal or by pressing CTRL + ALT + simultaneously and copy T to run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

After that start to download and install packages. In the end it will open a dialog that will ask about data needed to configure itself. We asked if we want to configure with Apache2 or Lighttpd. If the server is LAMP, Apache2 and accept only mark. After asking us if we want the installer to create a database for use phpmyadmin, to which we respond with a yes. Then we asked the root user password needed to to set the previous step. Then another password to phpmyadmin and confirmation. Finally phpmyadmin is installed.

To use phpmyadmin just go to http:// domainname / phpmyadmin where the proper domainname adapt to our situation. If our server is on the local machine can use http://localhost/phpmyadmin or http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin