Becoming somewhat frustrated trying to install phpmyadmin.
Web search reveals half a dozen 'recipes' for fixing the problem,
none of which work. I don't know why the apt-get installer doesn't
get it right in the first place; I expect I have somehow managed to
make my system non-standard in some way, but don't know enough about
Apache2 configuration to see what.
I'm running Trisquel Belenos, and it is kept updated.
Based on (admittedly outdated) instructions at:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-trisquel-server
I did the following:
# aptitude install apache2
# aptitude install mysql-server phpmyadmin php5 php5-mysql
And from a suggestion here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-server-0
I created the file
/var/www/html/index.php
which caused the browser to display a huge page of info about PHP, headed:
PHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17
so PHP looks to be working OK.
Anyway, this is what I did to install
(mysql was already installed and works fine from the command line):
# apt-get install apache2
# apt-get install phpmyadmin
All appeared to work fine; only slightly odd message was this:
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
W: Operation was interrupted before it could finish
No idea if that is significant.
Went ahead and pointed my browser (IceCat) to
localhost/phpmyadmin/
after quite a while (5-10 seconds) it showed a blank white page,
with a 'PMA' logo on the tab.
Grateful for any advice on how to debug this.
Please, no magic 'fixes', I've had enough of them,
just hints on ways to find out what phpmyadmin and/or apache2 need.
