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I just recently upgraded from Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) to Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine). My phpMyAdmin was removed while upgrading. Now I can't install it again.

I tried using:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin php-gettext

but it shows something like this:

Package phpmyadmin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'phpmyadmin' has no installation candidate

So I searched from phpMyAdmin, apt search phpmyadmin, but I didn't find any.

How can I install phpMyAdmin on this version?

Peter Mortensen
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MH Sagar
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    Its also no more in the packages repo: https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/phpmyadmin - disco is last one listed there. –  Oct 29 '19 at 08:59
  • Check that you have the `universe` repository installed. – DCowan Oct 28 '19 at 14:34

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I am a member of the packaging team and we are doing our best to get back phpMyAdmin in the Debian buster repository ASAP (buster-backports), this will update Ubuntu afterwards.

You can use our PPA: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/+bug/1837775/comments/7

There is an open issue on our tracker for Ubuntu: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/15515

And for Debian: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/15236

Hope the PPA or installing manually using our website will help someone

William Desportes
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    Thanks for your help. – MH Sagar Oct 30 '19 at 18:46
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    Looking forward to having this in the main repo soon...... – Saqib Ali Nov 06 '19 at 14:36
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    Correction - this won't make it into Ubuntu 19.10 because the package was already removed, and it might need some very heavy Release Team interaction to actually *get* included in Ubuntu again, and chances are it won't be put into 19.10 except via PPA because the archive is more or less 'frozen' there, to my knowledge. – Thomas Ward Nov 07 '19 at 17:11
  • Nothing happens if I try to add the ppa with `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa` – Black Apr 22 '20 at 09:23
  • Did you install add-apt-repository ? – William Desportes Apr 22 '20 at 09:25
  • @WilliamDesportes, yes it is installed. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 09:54
  • Please have a look to https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/16065#issuecomment-609035410 Maybe adding the repository manually will work, then you can apt-get update and apt-get install phpmyadmin – William Desportes Apr 22 '20 at 09:59
  • I added `deb ppa.launchpad.net/phpmyadmin/ppa/ubuntu eoan main` into **/etc/apt/sources.list** but now I get **Misshaped entry 51 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)** if I execute `apt-get install phpmyadmin` – Black Apr 22 '20 at 10:02
  • Edit: I had to add `http://`, I missed it because you did not mentioned it in the other comment. However it does still say that it was unable to found the packet. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 10:06
  • I assume you did run `apt-get update` ? – William Desportes Apr 22 '20 at 10:18
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    Oh forgot it, did just now. But I get an error. It says there is no public key and so it can't verify the signature and thus it refuses to update. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 10:25
  • Oh much better You an add it with https://askubuntu.com/a/291095/432270 and `apt-get update` once more – William Desportes Apr 22 '20 at 10:38
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    I had to add it like this: `deb [trusted=yes] http://ppa.launchpad.net/phpmyadmin/ppa/ubuntu eoan main` Now it works :) Thanks – Black Apr 22 '20 at 11:16
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To add the ppa mentioned by William Desportes and install phpmyadmin do the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Kevin Sadler
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    seamless answer. I suppose ppa: states what ppa to add, and since there is no full path like in a URL but is a local URL continuation with a / it means from the trusted repositories instead of some random URL therefore this looks mostly...mostly...safe? Right? I am new to securityand only know basic password auth models. – Bojan Landekić Jan 02 '20 at 11:59
  • Does not work. If I execute `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa` then nothing happens. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 09:20
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Obviously it has been removed for security reasons.

It popped up first in Debian Community: #916310 - 4.6 should not be shipped in a stable release - Debian Bug report logs

Then in Launchpad

Ubuntu Forums thread here: phpmyadmin missing from repository

It seems like some Debians joined the phpMyAdmin project to fix the problem in future releases.

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  • can I install it by using disco repositories? If so how? – MH Sagar Oct 29 '19 at 11:59
  • You know you can install it directly by downloading, uploading und running install? https://www.phpmyadmin.net/ You can try using disco package, but it might be linked to older php packages that do not exist on eoan, it might be possible to run them with php-fpm, but I think its easier for now to use the manual install. –  Oct 29 '19 at 12:59
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Ubuntu "focal" 20.04 has now phpMyAdmin 4.9.2

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+package/phpmyadmin

Track progress for 19.10 (if some can be done) in https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/15515

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  • How to upgrade from Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04 ? I tried `do-release-upgrade -c` but it says `No new release found.` – Black Apr 22 '20 at 09:40
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    No need to upgrade As I mentioned here: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/16065#issuecomment-609035410 You can use "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/phpmyadmin/ppa/ubuntu eoan main" – William Desportes Apr 22 '20 at 09:44
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    Ok thanks. I figured out that 20.04 is getting released tomorrow, thats prob why it was not able to find a new release. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 09:49
  • I added `deb ppa.launchpad.net/phpmyadmin/ppa/ubuntu eoan main` into **/etc/apt/sources.list** but now I get **Misshaped entry 51 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)** if I execute `apt-get install phpmyadmin` – Black Apr 22 '20 at 10:01
  • Edit: I had to add `http://`, However it does still say that it was unable to found the packet. – Black Apr 22 '20 at 10:07
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You can just use heidiSQL instead of phpmyadmin.

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