Install PHPMyAdmin without updating PHP

[tony_le2]

Hi guys,

I need some assists here. I want to install PHPMyAdmin for my sites, however, whenever I install PHPMyAdmin it will automatically upgrade my current PHP 7.2 to 7.3 which is not compatible with CE2.3. Is there any way I can install PHPMyAdmin but still maintaining my current PHP version.

Server setup:

Ubuntu 18.04

PHP 7.2.22

Nginx 1.14.0

Thank you.

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @tony_le2,

How are you trying to install PHPMyAdmin?

PHPMyAdmin needs 7.1 or higher -> https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/es/latest/require.html

Are you using some automatic installer?

[tony_le2]

Hi Damian,

I'm installing it using "sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin" command.

I have to reinstall PHP 7.2 and other PHP modules that have been upgraded to 7.3. Therefore, in my server will have 2 PHP versions which are 7.3 and 7.2.

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @tony_le2,

I didn't tried this post (I use Docker on local).

But following this post has sense when I read: https://medium.com/@panjeh/install-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-18-04-with-php-7-2-and-lamp-stack-3c72e77eef...

Maybe is a good idea to not use the distro package and create a virtual host into your server and download de PHPMyAdmin from the source directly?

[tony_le2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thank you for your solution. I have found another way to workaround is to install php7.2 after installing phpmyadmin and force Magento to use php7.2

[wp2x]

You just need to download the latest version of phpMyAdmin here https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/ and install it manually. It should be fine then