#UPGRADING PHPMYADMIN UBUNTU HOW TO#

Phpmyadmin is mysql client, so it will not affect your database if you uninstall phpmyadmin. Note: Depending on your PHP version, you may need to install additional libraries.įor example, to resolve the error about missing mysqli and mysql extensions (update the command to reflect your PHP version): sudo apt-get install php5.6-mysql You can also restart Apache sudo service apache2 reload This should be fine but if you face some permissions issues, you can try to let Apache be the owner: # only if you have permissions issuesĬhown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin The owner of /usr/share/phpmyadmin should be root:root on a default installation. Note: If unzip don't work, install it with: sudo apt-get install unzip Mv phpMyAdmin-4.8.0-all-languages phpmyadmin Then adapt this line with the correct version number wget For instance, Ubuntu is shipping the 4.6.x version which doesn't work properly with PHP 7.2. I suppose that you already have a working phpMyAdmin, but the version isn't the one you want. Note: The following instruction only works if you previously (and correctly) installed phpMyAdmin with the command line and use APACHE as a web server.

#UPGRADING PHPMYADMIN UBUNTU HOW TO#

Here is how to upgrade/downgrade on Ubuntu.

Upgrading phpmyadmin ubuntu