si, ahi lo desinstale y lo instale con otro nombre y me arranco pero sigue sin andar el phpmyadmin me tira el mismo error y no anda ningun comando y no aparece el semaforo ni nada... los manuales de instalacion son del año de la polca y en la pagina oficial dan solucion a problemas que nadie tiene..
Bueno segui investigando y parece q el problema es phpmyadmin ahora, en las FAQ dice esto (justamente el error q a mi me dá):
Cita: I cannot connect to the MySQL server. It always returns the error message, "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"
You tried to access MySQL with an old MySQL client library. The version of your MySQL client library can be checked in your phpinfo() output.
In general, it should have at least the same minor version as your server - as mentioned in FAQ 1.17.
The only way to fix this problem is manually compiling php and its MySQL extension against a current MySQL client library.
If you still face this problem, please compile your MySQL client library against the same or a newer MySQL release.
No entiendo nada.....