Install XAMPP on Ubuntu 18 / Linux Mint 19

XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.

Here is how to install it on your Ubuntu based distribution.

1) First download the latest XAMPP version for Linux using their site.
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html 

2) Then open up your terminal and navigate to your download directory. It's in your home (~/Downloads) by default.
cd ~/Downloads 

3) Then give executable permissions to the downloaded file as below.

sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-7.3.7-0-installer.run 


4) After giving permissions run that installer using the following command.

sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-7.3.7-0-installer.run 


5) You will see a GUI after running the above command. Then install XAMPP to your system using that GUI Wizard. This will install XAMPP to your /opt directory. 

6) After installing you can access the GUI Control panel using the following commands.

cd /opt/lampp
sudo ./manager-linux.run