Download XAMPP for linux from here - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html And follow the installation method. There are too many packages for LAMP in the repo. Manually downloading them will be a daunting task. Therefore use this all in one XAMPP for the moment. -- M. Nasimul Haque, M.Sc.(SUST) Wessex Institute of Technology Southampton, UK