Choose retry (skip questions). If there are still issues with phpmyadmin, then completley remove the package with sudo apt remove –purge phpmyadmin and manually install phpmyadmin from sources.

I get the following error message when running the command you advised.

┌────┤ Configuring phpmyadmin ├─────────────┐
│ An error occurred while installing the database: │
│ │
│ ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) . Your options are: │
│ * abort – Causes the operation to fail; you will need to downgrade, │
│ reinstall, reconfigure this package, or otherwise manually intervene │
│ to continue using it. This will usually also impact your ability to │
│ install other packages until the installation failure is resolved. │
│ * retry – Prompts once more with all the configuration questions │
│ (including ones you may have missed due to the debconf priority │
│ setting) and makes another attempt at performing the operation. │
│ * retry (skip questions) – Immediately attempts the operation again, │
│ skipping all questions. This is normally useful only if you have │
│ solved the underlying problem since the time the error occurred. │
│ * ignore – Continues the operation ignoring dbconfig-common errors. │
│ This will usually leave this package without a functional database. │
│ │
│ Next step for database installation: │
│ │
│ abort │
│ retry │
│ retry (skip questions) │
│ ignore │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────┘

Use sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin. No, by default, phpmyadmin installed from binaries does not use /var/ww/html directory for installation and uses /etc only for configuration . The source files reside in /usr/share/phpmyadmin usually.