Installing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 11

Use whatever mechanism your file extractor offers to save all the files, including
subdirectories, to some location on your workstation. Here, we have chosen c:\ , so a
c:\phpMyAdmin-2.8.2 directory has been created for extraction.
Now it's time to transfer the whole directory structure c:\phpMyAdmin-2.8.2 to the
web server in our web space. We use our favorite FTP software or the web control
panel for the transfer.
The exact directory under which we transfer phpMyAdmin may vary: It could be
our public_html directory or another directory where we usually transfer web
documents. For further instructions about the exact directory to be used or the best
way to transfer the directory structure, we can consult our host provider's help desk.
After the transfer is complete, these files are no longer needed on our Windows
client; so we can remove them.
Installation on a Local Linux Server
Let's say we chose phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.tar.gz and downloaded it directly to
some directory on the Linux server. We move it to our web server's document root
directory (for example, /var/www/html ) or to one of its subdirectories (for example,
/var/www/html/utilities ). Then we extract it with the following shell command
or by using any graphical file extractor our window manager offers:
tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.tar.gz