Installing XAMPP in Xubuntu 13.10

Question

I downloaded the XAMPP .run file from Apacheandfriends but the installation isn't working for me.

I can't seem to navigate to my downloads folder and it just keeps saying command not found all the time.

    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# cd ~/downloads
    bash: cd: /root/downloads: No such file or directory
    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# cd ~/Downloads
    bash: cd: /root/Downloads: No such file or directory
    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# /downloads
    bash: /downloads: No such file or directory
    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# cd /downloads
    bash: cd: /downloads: No such file or directory
    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# cd downloads
    bash: cd: downloads: No such file or directory
    root@john-Aspire-V3-531:/home/john# downloads
    downloads: command not found

What do I need to do? Apacheandfriends says to:

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

and then

./xampp-linux-1.8.2-0-installer.run

but it doesn't seem to think that the file exists.

Can anyone help me?

Solution

You are user root. The ~ is pointing to your root home. And root is not a desktop user so has no Downloads directory. So your 1st command fails because it needs to be ~/Downloads and you need to be the normal desktop user. To exit the root shell use exit or logout.

Please leave the root shell and issue these commands as your desktop user. It can and will break your system if you do this and use an malformed rm.

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If part of the installation is to use root please, stop using that software. If that software has any backdoors or other stupidly coded software you could be opening your whole system to the world. And please use the native LAMP stack. It is build and setup to work out of the box on Ubuntu, easier to setup and easier to maintain. It is as easy as issueing 4 commands and 1 password and you have a working apache and mysql with php installed.

Comments

[Braiam]

To exit the root shell use exit or logout ;)