In my downloads I have xampp-linux-x64-7.1.7-o-installer.run
, but when I click it it tries to run and then throws an error saying I need to become a super user as root privileges are required. I tried typing sudo
in the terminal and then dragging it into the terminal, same results. Can you help me use this app?
2 Answers
It is neither wise not advisable to install xampp on Ubuntu or any Linux distribution for that matter. Follow the instructions here http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-install-lamp-on-ubuntu to install the LAMP stack. About permissions on Linux you need to supply the OS with a super user password (thinks Administrator from Windows but much more powerful). This is a security measure to ensure that only trusted software is installed.
If Xampp does not work on your computer you can setup your own web developpment environement by issuing on a terminal the following command (you can add or remove packages as you need):
sudo apt install php5 apache2 php5-mysql mysql-server
This will install a web server on the computer plus a database server (mysql). If you prefer Sqlite you can install the php5-sqlite3
package instead of the php5-mysql
and the mysql-server
package.
If you are running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) or older, replace php5
with php7.0
(php 5.0 is not available any more on official repositories since php7.0
was released.
apache2
is the webserver.
Please note that this server will run on the background of your computer, and this could provoke performance issues on old hardware...