Installing XAMPP

Question

I'm new to linux and I'm trying to install XAMPP I downloaded the file and I cant execute it, I followed the Instruction on http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374 but when I'm trying the command

chmod 755 chmod 755 xampp-linux-1.8.2-0-installer.run

it's showing

cannot access ‘xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-0-installer.run’: No such file or directory

I'm using 64bit ubuntu 13.04 please help me

Solution

Try the following (Note the version of xampp!)

1. Navigate to the location where the file is currently located using cd command, usually the Downloads folder

   cd Downloads/
   

2. Then run the commands

   sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run
   sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run
   

This will install xampp under /opt folder

3. To start xampp services,

   sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
   

Comments

[Rinzwind]

please install the native LAMP stack. Less hassle, less problems, more secure. (It is as easy as sudo apt-get install tasksel then tasksel and choose LAMP and you have a working apache, mysql, php).

[user186990]

Thank you for your help, But please can you write the full command for me, I'm still learning and I don't know how to use cd

[Lorenzo Baracchi]

cd stands for change directory. Thus if you downloaded the file in the standard directory Downloads, once you open the terminal you move to that directory with exactly the command I wrote in the answer: cd ~/Downloads.

[Lorenzo Baracchi]

You may also want to read help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal to have some more informations about the terminal