At last got to the post install wizard , getting the message
Error
Error while trying to create admin user: Failed to connect to the database: An exception occurred in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1698] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost
however
odroid@odroid:/var/www/owncloud$ sudo mysqladmin -u root -p version
Enter password:
mysqladmin Ver 9.1 Distrib 10.6.11-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnueabihf on armv7l
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Server version 10.6.11-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime: 1 hour 57 min 29 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 58 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 33 Open tables: 26 Queries per second avg: 0.008
password is OK for root
Should I not have used root as the admin user during setup and used “Admin” instead ?
Sorry for the daft qustions I’m pn the vertical section of the learning curve with owncloud and mysql