Can you confirm you're using Ubuntu 10.10 by posting the output of lsb_release -a. Also, can you try removing phpmyadmin with sudo apt-get purge phpmyadmin. Here's the output when I do sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin:
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: phpmyadmin 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4,342kB of archives. After this operation, 17.7MB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package phpmyadmin. (Reading database ... 33954 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking phpmyadmin (from .../phpmyadmin_4%3a3.3.7-5build0.10.10.1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up phpmyadmin (4:3.3.7-5build0.10.10.1) ... dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf with new version Creating config file /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php with new version granting access to database phpmyadmin for phpmyadmin@localhost: success. verifying access for phpmyadmin@localhost: success. creating database phpmyadmin: success. verifying database phpmyadmin exists: success. populating database via sql... done. dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password * Reloading web server config apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName Are you using dbconfig to configure the database? Here's the contents of my /etc/apache2/conf.d: ls -l /etc/apache2/conf.d/ total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2010-12-11 09:39 javascript-common.conf -> /etc/javascript-common/javascript-common.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3296 2010-11-18 16:16 localized-error-pages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 2010-11-18 16:16 other-vhosts-access-log lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2011-03-10 07:47 phpmyadmin.conf -> ../../phpmyadmin/apache.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1481 2010-11-18 16:16 security Can you then try accessing the phpmyadmin site from another host besides localhost? Or try http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin. Thanks, Adam -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/730052 Title: Documentation for installing phpMyAdmin incomplete -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs