phpMyAdmin is a web based interface to MySQL which is written using PHP for Administration of databases. Visual interface provided is intuitive and it saves time for the developers. (ver 3.1.1 is the recommended version as of this writing which runs on PHP 5/MySQL 5)
Step 1: First we need to check MySQL is installed by issuing the following command
[root@user Desktop]# which mysql
If you get ...
/usr/bin/mysql
then, it is an indication that MySQL is installed in your machine.
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