Install XAMPP 1.8.3 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

XAMPP is an open source web server package. XAMPP 1.8.3 includes all the packages Apache 2.4.7,MySQL 5.6.14,PHP 5.5,Php myadmin 5.0.9 , perl,openssl and etc.
It is available for all operating systems windows,Linux and Mac OS-X.

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install XAMPP 1.8.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 / 13.10 / 13.04 / 12.10 / 12.04 LTS and LinuxMint

Installtion Steps

Step 1: Download hte Installer file from the home website or Click HERE

Step 2: Give Permisison to the Installer file

Once Download completed browse to the directory and give permissions to the file for executing,default the installer file don't have any execution permission

sudo chmod 755 xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run

Step 3: Install XAMPP 1.8.3 

./xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run

In XAMPP 1.8.3 similar to windows control panel they are providing,so no need to start the servers via command line.

If you need command line also start using the below commands

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Uninstall XAMPP 1.8.3

For Uninstallation simple run the below commands in the terminal 

Before uninsalltion ***********Take all files in the htdocs folder***************

sudo /opt/lampp/uninstall.sh

rm -rf /opt/lampp/