XAMPP for Linux,once called LAMPP, is what developer need. By facility it provides, linux developer does not have to get complicated tasks by doing installation servers such as web server, database server, etc in order to simulate their own laptop or personal computer as server. Frankly, we mostly agreed that XAMPP on Windows has been widely succeeded. All right, Im goin to show you step-by-step installation guide.
1. Download file
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xampp/xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz
2. Unpack it
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt
3. there you go! that's all you need to do to perfectly complete installation is start XAMPP
/opt/lampp/lampp start|stop|restart