On Wed, 24 May 2017 06:17:35 -0400 Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: phpmyadmin ... need help! > UTC Time: May 23, 2017 8:18 PM > From: j...@jretrading.com > > Yes, you've done it backwards, but it's no big deal in Debian. > phpmyadmin needs the root password of mysql in order to install > > In all other systems it is a catastrophic mistake, but in Debian it > is no biggy, you just throw everything away and start from > scratch. :) :) :) :) LoLLL > The point being that throwing phpmyadmin away and reinstalling is trivial, whatever the OS. As I said, it's just a few web server scripts. Debian just makes it even more trivial, and makes setting up mysql just as easy. We recently went through this with mariadb, and I discovered that setting that up isn't so easy, since there is no postinstall script supplied by Debian like the mysql one. Had things been the other way around, and the OP had installed mysql and twenty applications which use it, and they had all set up their users and databases, and that lot had to be reinstalled... yes, that would have been a big deal, in Debian or anything else. -- Joe
