Hackourlives posted a tutorial about installing Apache MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin on Ubuntu10.04 lucid lynx or Mint Linux 9

Step 1: You start by installing mysql

sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

Specify new password for the MySQl “root” user when you asked for. Repeat it for a second time and you would have YSQL server and client installed.

  Install Apache MySQL PHP phpmyadmin (LAMP) on Ubuntu 10.04 or Mint Linux 9