Can't install phpmyadmin on ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

[ikoutone]

Describe the bug

user@server:~$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
phpmyadmin : Depends: php-symfony-config (>= 4.4.9) but 4.3.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: php-symfony-dependency-injection (>= 4.4.9) but 4.3.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: php-symfony-expression-language (>= 4.4.9) but 4.3.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

To Reproduce

Happens every time I try to install phpmyadmin

Expected behavior

I expect phpmyadmin to install without any errors on dependencies.

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Server configuration

• Operating system:
• Web server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
• Database version: 5.7.36-39 Percona Server
• PHP version: Version 7.4.27
• phpMyAdmin version: None

Additional context

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[williamdes]

Hi @ikoutone
From what source are you trying to install?

Maybe check out: Wiki for install methods on Ubuntu/Debian

The PPA method might work for you

[ikoutone]

I tried with the PPA mentioned in there
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa

Now I only have phpmyadmin-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Before I added the PPA, I removed all previous phpmyadmin sources I had in there. This server has been upgraded from ubuntu 16.04->18.04->20.04 and is old so it might just be that I need to create another ubuntu server on linode and migrate my stuff to there.

[williamdes]

and is old so it might just be that I need to create another ubuntu server on linode and migrate my stuff to there.

That's probably one of the solutions

Since I upgraded in 9776ce4 and did document the reason I will send a new version into the PPA so you can use the older php-symfony-* packages
That should be okay in 1 hour

[williamdes]

Just sent the upload, it should be available in ~15min after it builds

This was a "mistake" on my end, I had to bump down the restriction for focal distros to be able to install the package with the focal built in version: https://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/focal/i386/php-symfony-config

You can follow the build https://launchpad.net/~phpmyadmin/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+build/23164534

[williamdes]

Let me know how it goes when you can install the package (near to be available): https://launchpad.net/~phpmyadmin/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

[ikoutone]

Thank you! It works now.