How to install xampp in ubuntu
Xampp is a free to use web development environment enable you to run local server in your computer.Advantage of Xampp is it has got all the stuffs (MySQL, PHP and Perl) in one package and its distribution is available for all the major Operating systems (Windows,Linux,Mac OS X,Solaris) .In this tutorial we can see how to install Xampp on Ubuntu – Linux for Human Beings!
Download the Latest version of Xampp For Linux
Once the Download is finish don’t extract the file.Copy and Put it in your Desktop you have downloaded it ( eg: xampp-linux-1.7.4.tar.gz)
Open Terminal (Application—->Accessories—->Terminal)
Run Following Command in Terminal
cd Desktop
NB Make sure the initial letter of Desktop should be in Uppercase.
Now enter the following command in the terminal to install Xampp
sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.4.tar.gz -C /opt
Once finished installing enter the following command in terminal to avoid permission denied error while copying files to htdocs (user name you have to replace with you system user name ref the image below)
chown username -R /opt/lampp/htdocs
Instillation part is done now to start XAMPP services enter the following command in terminal
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
It is Done 
You can check it by opening http://localhost in your browser
If you wish to have a XAMPP Control Panel icon on your desktop follow this steps
Open terminal and enter the following command
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/xampp-control-panel.desktop
it will open a window copy and past the below code on that and click save as form the file menu and save it on your desktop
[Desktop Entry] Comment=Start/Stop XAMPP Name=XAMPP Control Panel Exec=gksudo "python /opt/lampp/share/xampp-control-panel/xampp-control-panel.py" Icon[en_CA]=/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/devices/network-wired.svg Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false Name[en_CA]=XAMPP Control Panel Comment[en_CA]=Start/Stop XAMPP Type=Application Icon=/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/devices/network-wired.svg
