PHPMyAdmin cannot connect to MySQL

I installed the lampp sever on my local i开发者_开发问答n linux OS, but its giving error while opening phpmyadmin.

#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)

See services mysqld enabled or disabled.

check if MySQL is running with this command

mysqladmin -u root -p status

if it is running it will ask for your password otherwise it will spit out an error