amazon ec2 - How to install PHPMyAdmin on Linux EC2 instance?

I just finished setting up a default Linux EC2 instance and would like to install PHPMyAdmin. I already have Apache and MySQL installed but cannot seem to install PHPMyAdmin. I tried using

sudo apt-get phpmyadmin but the command apt-get is not recognized.

I also tried sudo yum install phpmyadmin but that I get the message No package phpmyadmin available.

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

I found an easy solution here.

Do the following:

1. Navigate to the apache folder

   cd /var/www/html
   

2. Ensure ownership of the folder (assuming signed in with ec2-user)

   sudo chown ec2-user .
   

3. Download phpMyAdmin

   wget http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/4.0.3/phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2
   

4. Unzip

   tar -jxf phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/html
   

5. Rename the folder

   mv phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages phpmyadmin
   

6. Remove the zip file

   rm -rf phpMyAdmin-4.0.3-all-languages.tar.bz2
   

That's the basics. You can find more info in the link provided above.

I know the question has more than one year, but was the first thing that popped up on google with "phpmyadmin ec2". Here is a better way to do things.

Knowing that you have yum, the best way to act is to install it by yum, being a RHEL distribution you can "activate" the EPEL repository ( Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), where you can find phpmyadmin and some other stuff.

Here you can see a package list for the EPEL repo.

There is 2 way to use EPEL, one is to activate it permanently, editing the file /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and where it says enabled=0 we change it to enabled=1, now you can sudo yum install phpmyadmin.

The easy way is to activate it just to install the packages you want, like mongodb or phpmyadmin.

sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install phpmyadmin

and it should work.

First add the repository, then install:

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm 
sudo yum install phpmyadmin 

This works fine on a standart 32bits amazon instance

As of 13th December 2012, this works fine on an EC2 server:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

No other steps necessary, assuming you have PHP, MySQL and Apache all set up.

The package is called phpMyAdmin. You may need to enable EPEL first.

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

once you have installed it, you must make a symbolic link (like a redirect) using

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www

to open (change your IP) http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/phpmyadmin

you MIGHT see an error missing mcrypt. i couldnt solve, but it didnt get in the way.

for logging in user is "root" and the password is the one that you created during the phpmyadmin install

adapted from this tutorial