Upgrading phpMyAdmin

As the distribution packages do not always provide the newest release of phpMyAdmin this is how to upgrade manually.

Rename existing phpMyAdmin directory

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

Create new directory

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin

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

Create directory for temporary files used by phpMyAdmin

mkdir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp

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

Copy original config file to new directory

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

Remove directory containing the old version

rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin-old

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