How to fix the phpmyadmin error “json extension is missing” on Ubuntu 14.04 desktop amd64?

ubuntu 14.04 amd64 LTS

Installed LAMP and phpmyadmin. 

Cannot open phpmyadmin, error “json extension is missing.

Go to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/amd64/php5-json/download

To download one deb file and save to somewhere, my place is: /var/www/php5-json_1.3.1+dfsg-2_amd64.deb

To install the deb file: dpkg -i /var/www/php5-json_1.3.1+dfsg-2_amd64.deb

Restart apache2: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Open phpmyadmin. It works!