XAMPP isn't available in the normal repos, it needs to be downloaded as a tarball and worked on from there.
What i gather is that xampp is meant for people who are not working on production systems (or those online) it has lax security implementations regards ram Ram _________________________________________________________ Himal Prakriti - Information on Uttarakhand Floods and Post Flood Scenario Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills Homestay with a difference On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Ninad Pundalik <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ram, > > Dumb questions first: Have you checked if the MySQL/MariaDB processes > are running? Also, I am guessing that you've already checked the > minimum requirements listed on the Joomla Install guides? > > Do Ubuntu's repositories have a XAMPP meta-package? If that is the > case, synaptic/apt should take care of removing the conflicting > versions from the lamp-server tasksel configuration. If XAMPP comes > bundled with everything, I think you are in for a lot of work. > > Ninad > Ninad S. Pundalik > GPG Key Fingerprint: 2DF7 B856 C75E C9F9 0504 C0EF D456 1946 7C45 2C69 > > > On 30 August 2013 09:09, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Have been trying to install the L"AMP" stack. The AMP portion seems to be > > succesfull (of coure the L part is already there) - all the AMP tests are > > good. But then am trying to install Joomla and get an error > > > > "Could not connect to the database. Connector returned number: Could not > > connect to MySQL." > > > > Tried googling but have not been able to find any good solutions. But am > now > > thinking of installing XAMPP , which it seems is good for non production > > servers and is good for offline use and it is also almost a one command > > install. > > > > However the question is can i install XAMPP over the existing L"AMP" > stack > > or do i need to uninstall the AMP portion first. > > > > thanks > > > > Ram > > _________________________________________________________ > > Himal Prakriti - Information on Uttarakhand Floods and Post Flood > Scenario > > Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills > > Homestay with a difference > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-in mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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