phpmyadmin installation unsuccessful

[Mathieu L BOUCHARD]

Binary package hint: phpmyadmin

installer (debconf) does not ask for the hostname (is this only for localhost ?).

upon installing, it is not clear that phpmyadmin is going to be working only with localhost and that it's useless running it

installer does not ask for the username to use (is it always "root"? is it always "mysql"?).

installer doesn't sound very clear on which question is for the password for the mysql server, and which question is for the password of the phpmyadmin account.

installer's real error message is not selectable because it appears as a "tooltip" (aka balloon), whereas there is plenty of empty space in the dialogue box, and what is written in the dialogue box doesn't really help anyone fixing anything.

mysql server not currently running is considered an error (if package mysql-server just got half-installed and is not configured yet, what can we do about it? can phpmyadmin be configured at all, from a dpkg standpoint?)

trying to quit the installer caused a crash of an unspecified nature, which was detected by some programme which got me on this site. i don't have a core dump nor a backtrace.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: phpmyadmin 4:3.1.2-1ubuntu0.1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: phpmyadmin
Title: package phpmyadmin 4:3.1.2-1ubuntu0.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-6-386 i686

[Michal Čihař (nijel)]

There are several bugs in this report:

1. bad questions about MySQL server etc. - please report to dbconfig-common which takes care about this

2. displaying of questions - please report to installer you did use

3. MySQL not running is duplicate of 348535

As only the last one is bug in phpMyAdmin where this bug is reported, I'm marking whole bug as duplicate.