[jackola]

Hi,

First off, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate any and all help forthcoming. I am a newbie for linux... my friends told me to install 'mandrake 9', which I have done, it's pretty straight forward. the apache runs itself and php and php-mysql (I believe client) is installed by default.

what I'm trying to do is to install phpmyadmin (which I have done on windows easily enough). I downloaded and installed all the required (i used mostly rpm.pbone.net for the downloads -- is this good?? any suggestions?).

I downloaded and installed phpMyAdmin-2.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm

I was in the process of following the phpmyadmin docs to configure the config.inc.php when I realized perhaps I need to install mysql server first...

I'm really sorry for all this confusion as to my scenerio, but I'm totally new to both mysql and phpmyadmin as well as mandrake 9.

I guess what I really wanted to know is if anyone has documentation for using 'mandrake 9' to install phpmyadmin (ie. what version of php, mysql server or not etc... rpm's I need to install first...) and then the configurations to get it to work... it was really simple in windows... but I really want to do this in linux.

Thank you all for any help, I really appreciate it.

:smile:
lost in mandrake

 

[wmorri]

Hi,

I haven't used mandrake yet. But if you are using rpms to install programs then you can most likely use "yum" too. Yum is a tool used to install programs that are built with rpms. I would recommend that you try:

[color=red]su -c 'yum install mysql'
password:[/color] [color=blue]enter your root password[/color]

If this works yum should install mysql, the program and the server, for you. Then you can go about getting phpmyadmin to work.

Cheers!

 

[jackola]

thank you for you suggestion.

I don't have a problem with installing the rpm... in fact, I installed phpmyadmin (please see package info. in my original post) along with the pre-requisites and I was able to get to the phpmyadmin console via my web-browser. What I'm fuzzy about is whether the phpmyadmin package I installed is ready to use (which is the case with the windows phpmyadmin install, which includes the mysql server), or I would still need to install the mysql server rpm...

 

[wmorri]

If you look my post above says

[color=red]su -c 'yum install mysql'
password:[/color] [color=blue]enter your root password[/color]

This is for the mysql client and server. If you already have the server installed then you should be able to use phpmyadmin without any problems.

Cheers!

 

[jackola]

Thank you, I'll give that a try.