If you get message Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration after you in stall phpMyAdmin in Opensuse, so please make sure : yast2 -i libcrypt yast2 -i mcrypt yast2 -i libcrypt-devel then go to /etc/php5/conf.d/ vim mcrypt.ini to make sure extension = mcrypt.so save it then type command /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (if you don't type this command-line your web-browser will not clear the error message out)