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I'm a newbbie on Ubuntu, and I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get Xampp or Lamp to work.

So I started trying to get Xampp, and I downloaded version 7.1.10, and I did everything I'm supposed to do: -ran chmod +x on the .run file, then I ran the file. The thing is, it installed in terminal(no interface opened like I saw in many videos), still, the installation ran smoothly. In the end, it said the setup completed sucessfully, and I went looking for the app everywhere but to no avail. I searched online but couldn't find anything that solved the problem.

So I uninstalled and installed several times, never worked.

Then I turned to Lamp. Again, setup the same way, thru terminal, in the end it even asked if I wanted to launch bitnami lamp stack, but then nothing happened. Again, no app, nothing.

So, any help would be greatly apreciated!(I'm running Ubuntu 17.10, maybe that's the problem somehow?)

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Xampp would usually get installed in /opt/lampp directory. Did you check the location?

Looks like it is related to this Why don't gksu/gksudo work with Wayland?

That's why you won't get the GUI.

But you can still use command line to manage it.

cd to /opt/lampp and use commands sudo ./xampp start and sudo ./xampp stop. You get list of possible commands with ./xampp

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  • Ye, all the files were there. But I couldn't open the xampp control panel, because there was no app. Oct 23, 2017 at 19:38
  • Try and use command line
    – Legolas
    Oct 23, 2017 at 19:54
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Since 17.10 (Artful) version of Ubuntu, some applications seem to not work because of the "Wayland" server display. You may switch between Wayland/Xorg to make them work. This article explain in details how to : Installing and running XAMPP comfortably on Ubuntu 17.10

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