Installing phpmyadmin on OpenSuSE 12.2

phpMyAdmin is a free and open source tool used to handle mySQL database functionalities via web browser. Creating, editing or dropping databases, fields or tables can be done in this tool with a click of a button (instead of typing long queries).

This is a simple guide intended to install phpMyAdmin version 3.5.3 on OpenSuSE 12.2.

First of all, you have to have LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) installed and configured, if you haven't done so yet, follow the steps in this link, before proceeding here.

And, Lastly, this guide is intended for the installation of phpMyAdmin on the OpenSuSE version 12.2 operating system. 



1. Go to Activities > Applications > (scroll down) and click on Xterm

2. Type su to access root / admin privileges, and input your password.

3. Type the following command: zypper install phpMyAdmin (take note of the spelling, it's not spelled as phpmyadmin.)

4. Restart your apache2 server by typing rcapache2 restart 

5. Go to your browser and type localhost/phpMyAdmin and you may now log-in using your root username and password. At this point you have succesfully installed phpMyAdmin in OpenSuSE 12.2.