Upgrading phpMyAdmin

As the distribution packages do not always provide the newest release these are the steps to upgrade manually.

1. Rename existing phpMyAdmin directory

mv /usr/share/phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin-old

2. Create new directory

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin

3. Download and extract phpMyAdmin archive

wget -qO- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/phpMyAdmin-latest-all-languages.tar.gz | tar -xzvf - -C /usr/share/phpmyadmin --strip-components=1

4. Create directory for temporary files used by phpMyAdmin

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp && chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp

5. Copy original config file to new directory

cp -r --preserve=all /usr/share/phpmyadmin-old/config.inc.php /usr/share/phpmyadmin

6. Remove directory containing the old version

rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin-old

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