Two easy steps to install xampp on ubuntu
download xampp and save it on desktop.
sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-* -C /opt (to copy all the files from archive to the /opt folder).
/opt/lampp/lampp start (to start xampp).. n joy
If ubuntu server edition is installed do this before installing–
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop (to stop other apache)
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop [...]
