This is simple how to tutorial to install XAMPP stack on Ubuntu 15.04 and its officiall flavors. You can install XAMPP packages from their website http://www.apachefriends.org/download.html. The latest version is 5.6.8,as is released. First, make the installer executable with chmod: [sourcecode] sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-5.6.8-0-installer.run [/sourcecode] Then run the installer: [sourcecode] sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-5.6.8-0-installer.run [/sourcecode] When you asked a couple of question, just answer it with "Y". The XAMPP stack is installed on /opt/lampp You can test it, with this command to start the XAMPP stack: [sourcecode] sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start [/sourcecode]