Install XAMPP in Linux Mint

To install XAMPP in Linux Mint just download XAMPP and follow the steps below

 Download Xampp From here http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/LAMPP/0.9.4/

Go to Terminal and login as admin by the command

               $su 
Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:

$tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.8.0.tar.gz -C /opt

To start XAMPP simply call this command:

/opt/lampp/lampp start

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