Quick-Start with phpMyAdmin on Linux Mint 17 Qiana Trusty
You are Welcome! The Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How to Install and Getting-Started with the Latest Phpmyadmin 4.x for MySQL Administration for Linux Mint 17 Qiana LTS i386/amd64 Mate/Cinnamon/Kde/Xfce Desktop.
phpMyAdmin is a Free Software Tool written in PHP that supports a wide range of operations on MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle.
phpMyAdmin is able of Managing Databases, Tables, Columns, Relations, Indexes, Users Permissions and Executing Any SQL via the User GUI.

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Open a Command Line Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands) -
Install & Enable MCrypt PHP Extension
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
sudo service apache2 restart
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Download Latest Phpmyadmin 4.x for Linux:
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Double-Click on Archive Extract into /tmp
Or from Command Line:
tar xvzf $HOME/Downloads/phpMyAdmin*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
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Relocate Phpmyadmin Folder
sudo su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
chown -R www-data:www-data /tmp/phpMyAdmin*
If the PHP User is different then adapt the above Command Consequently…
mv /tmp/phpMyAdmin* /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
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Create a “config” Directory
cd /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
mkdir config
chown www-data:www-data config
chmod o+rw config
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Make a Config Script or Run Phpmyadmin Setup.
mv config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php & exit
Then Run Phpmyadmin Setup
Point Your Browser to:http://localhost/phpmyadmin/setup
(If You have an Hosted Domain Substitute the Server IP to localhost.)
Add a New Server:
Set at Least the Authentication Password and if Possible also the SSL Support!
Apply the MySQL Server Configuration!
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Login into Phpmyadmin Backend to Admin MySQL Databases.
Point Your Browser to:
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Then You are Able to Manage Create/Edit/Delete the MySQL Databases on Linux Mint System :)
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