phpmyadmin error during installation “Empty value for 'port' specified.”

Question

I have been trying to install phpmyadmin on my digitalocean droplet using ubuntu 14.04 / mysql 5.7.12 . I have a LAMP stack with apache as the web server.

During instal

Answer 1

Another workaround, I was updating Ubuntu 14.04 -> 16.04:

• In the wizard select "tcp/ip" as connection method, localhost port 0
• Read the phpmyadmin user password from /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php
• Change the phpmyadmin user password in the db to it
• Paste it into the wizard (twice)

Wizard will run through :)