Wordpress on new install Lubuntu 20.04

[mahesh]

In general up and running but I have questions mainly about setting permissions.

This is for a local install of Wordpress on an old laptop it should never be exposed to the net.

1, I installed the Lampp server and phpmyadmin and they are running.
2, I downloaded the latest .tar.gzip of WordPress it's in Downloads.
3, I can log in to phpmyadmin as 'phpmyadmin@localhost'/'mypassword'

I don't have permissions to create a database so that needs correcting.

I need to extract wordpress into the var/www/'my website' directory, create a database and run the WordPress install.

So what do I need to do to make this happen?

Particularly creating a database user with the correct permissions, creating the database and granting the correct permissions to the extracted wordpress.

If you could post a link to a suitable HowTo I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks All mnduck