Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, XAMPP is an open source project, which enables the users to easily install Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl, in order to create a web server, without much effort. The latest version available is XAMPP 1.8.3, which installed MySQL 5.6.16, Apache 2.4.7, phpMyAdmin 4.0.9, Perl 5.16.3 and many others.
Also, it comes with the BitNami-packaged application, that allows the users to install Drupal, Joomla! and Moodle. For more information, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install XAMPP 1.8.3 on the most popular Linux systems, including: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian Wheezy, Kwheezy, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and Arch Linux.
Because XAMPP 1.8.3 is available as pre-compiled libraries, we have to download the .run package from the official site, set execution permissions, run the installer and do some other tweaks for creating a launcher and integrating it in your desktop.
How to install XAMPP 1.8.3 on 32 bit Linux systems:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run
$ chmod 755 xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run
$ sudo ./xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run
How to install XAMPP 1.8.3 on 64 bit Linux systems:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-2-installer.run
$ chmod 755 xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-2-installer.run
$ sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-2-installer.run
Next, follow the graphical user interface instructions.
Now, we have to download the application’s launcher and move it in her propper place:
$ wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/964512/server/xampp-control-panel.desktop
$ sudo mv xampp-control-panel.desktop /usr/share/applications/xampp-control-panel.desktop
Also, for a better intergration with the desktop, create the following symlinks:
$ sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes
$ sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
$ sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts
To test if xampp has been successfully installed, just go to http://localhost from your internet browser.
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