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sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

You can now access XAMPP from this link to see if it is well started:

http://localhost

The default folder for installing your web files and applications is /opt/lampp/htdocs. For stopping or restarting XAMPP, you can use later these commands:

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/01/how-to-install-xampp-177-under-ubuntu.html