# Distributing and packaging phpMyAdmin

This document is intended to give pieces of advice to people who want to redistribute phpMyAdmin inside other software packages such as Linux distribution or some all in one package including web server and MySQL server.

Generally, you can customize some basic aspects (paths to some files and behavior) in `libraries/vendor_config.php`.

For example, if you want setup script to generate a config file in var, change `SETUP_CONFIG_FILE` to `/var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php` and you will also probably want to skip directory writable check, so set `SETUP_DIR_WRITABLE` to false.

## External libraries

phpMyAdmin includes several external libraries, you might want to replace them with system ones if they are available, but please note that you should test whether the version you provide is compatible with the one we ship.

Currently known list of external libraries:

js/vendor
  jQuery js framework libraries and various js libraries.
vendor/
  The download kit includes various Composer packages as dependencies.