This is documented in README.Debian of phpMyAdmin package.
** Changed in: phpmyadmin (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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phpMyAdmin: can't authenticate to run setup.php script
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382824
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Bugs,
Ok, I figured out the problem.
This website: http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/runtime/faq/install_phpmyadmin
told me that I needed to do the following to fix the htpasswd.setup file:
sudo htpasswd /etc/phpmyadmin/htpasswd.setup admin
For whatever reason I could not find this in the documentation for
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