I have running Ubuntu 18.04 on my workstation. I have the phpMyAdmin older version installed on it. Initially, the phpMyAdmin was installed through the apt package manager.
phpMyAdmin installation via Apt package manager create multiple directories:
- /etc/phpmyadmin – Configuration files
- /var/lib/phpmyadmin – Library and tmp directries
- /usr/share/phpmyadmin – Main phpMyAdmin installation
Step 1 – Backup phpMyAdmin
You should take a back up of your current phpMyAdmin directory. However, I have just renamed it to phpmyadmin.bak at the same location.
sudo mv /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/phpmyadmin.bak
Step 2 – Download Latest phpMyAdmin
Now, download the latest phpMyAdmin archive file from its official download page. During last update of this article phpMyAdmin 4.8.5 is latest version available for download.
wget www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.zip unzip phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.zip
You will see a directory phpMyAdmin-[VERSION]-all-languages in the current location. Move this latest directory to the appropriate location.
sudo mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin sudo mv phpMyAdmin-*/* /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
Step 3 – Update Configuration
As I told the existing phpMyAdmin was installed with Apt package manager. Therefore you need to specify the TEMP_DIR and CONFIG_DIR location under the vendor_config.php file.
Edit vendor_config.php file in your favorite text editor
sudo vim /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/vendor_config.php
and update the following values.
define('TEMP_DIR', '/var/lib/phpmyadmin/tmp/');
define('CONFIG_DIR', '/etc/phpmyadmin/');
Save the file and access the phpMyAdmin in a web browser.
All done. In conclusion, you have the latest phpMyAdmin running on your Ubuntu system.
18 Comments
I have always been using this post for years, to install the new versions of phpmyadmin.
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Brilliant! Thanks. Just remember to log back into phpmyadmin after you make the changes.
thanks for this article
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Thank you.
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Thank you, bro!
Shortly and clear.
I had no problem when made upgrade
echo
echo “Backing up”
mv /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/phpmyadmin.bak
echo “Getting lastest PHPMyAdmin version…”
mkdir -p /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
cd /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
wget https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.tar.gz
tar xzf phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.tar.gz
mv phpMyAdmin-*/* /usr/share/phpmyadmin
echo “Updating vendor_config”
sed -i -r “s/(‘TEMP_DIR’\s*,)[^\)]*/\1 ‘\/var\/lib\/phpmyadmin\/tmp\/’/” /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/vendor_config.php
sed -i -r “s/(‘CONFIG_DIR’\s*,)[^\)]*/\1 ‘\/etc\/phpmyadmin\/’/” /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/vendor_config.php
echo “Cleaning up…”
rm /usr/share/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.tar.gz
rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-*
rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin.bak
echo “Done!”
echo
This was a tremendous help to me. I did have one error after installing the new version.
“File ./vendor/autoload.php missing or not readable. Most likely you did not run Composer to install library files”
I had to run. composer update –no-dev. within the phpmyadmin directory.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/file-vendor-autoload-php-missing-or-not-readable-most-likely-you-did-not-run-composer-to-install-library-files
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