How to install phpMyAdmin on debian7 or ubuntu

phpMyAdmin is a free web software to work with MySQL on the web. It provides a convenient visual front end to the MySQL capabilities.

Before working with phpMyAdmin, you need to have LAMP installed on your server. If you don't have the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack on your server, you can find the tutorial for setting it up here.

Install phpMyAdmin

In Debian and Ubuntu it simple.You can use apt-get for setup it.

# su -
# apt-get install phpmyadmin

or

# sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

if you enabled sudo

During the installation, phpMyAdmin will walk you through a basic configuration. Once the process starts up, follow these steps:
Select Apache2 for the server
Choose YES when asked about whether to Configure the database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common
Enter your MySQL password when prompted
Enter the password that you want to use to log into phpmyadmin

After the installation has completed, add phpmyadmin to the apache configuration.

# sudo Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf > /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Restart apache2 Service.

# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

You can then access phpmyadmin by going to youripaddress/phpmyadmin.