LAMP is not software in itselft, but is acutally a solution stack of software used to run websites or servers. For more information on LAMP, visit wikipedia's LAMP Solution Stack article.
Since LAMP is not actually software in itself, to install and configure it, we will install and configure the individual software components that make up a LAMP Solution Stack.
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Visit the phpMyAdmin website for more information.
MySQL is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. For more information on MySQL, you can visit their website at www.mysql.com.
This documentation was written for MySQL 5.0.45 but may be usefull with other versions.