Installing Xampp in Ubuntu 10.10

Download the XAMPP archive file for linux

Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:

      tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt

Already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.

That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory.

To Start XAMPP

To start it up, open a terminal and type this:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

To stop XAMPP

To stop it, open a terminal and type this:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop