How to solve phpmyadmin installation error ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)?

Question

ubuntu

I install phpmyadmin
sudo apt install phpmyadmin
then select apache2
connection method Unix socket
mysql database name for phpmyadmin - phpmyadmin
mysql username for phpmyadmin - phpmyadmin
and the following picture pops up

why everything is so complicated, why can't you just install it to work right away. Again dancing with a tambourine?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Good afternoon.
Specify login and password for mysql.

Answer 2

Are you sure that mysql is using unix socket? In my opinion, in current versions of Ubuntu / Debian, localhost: 3306 is used by default