To install it on your ubuntu system you can use apt-get which is the easiest way. phpMyAdmin is a good option, if you don't want to install LAMPP. Please follow the below mentioned steps, these will guide you through each and every step of installation. Step 1 sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Step 2 Select Apache2 for the server Step 3 Choose YES when asked about whether to Configure the database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common Step 4 Enter your MySQL password when prompted Step 5 Enter the password that you want to use to log into phpmyadmin Step 6 After the installation has completed, add phpmyadmin to the apache configuration. sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf If you are not comfortable with nano, you can use gedit sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Step 7 Add the phpmyadmin config to the file. Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf Step 8 Restart apache: sudo service apache2 restart