Tohir Solomons

XDebug on XAMPP for Linux

Posted on the May 7th, 2007 under Linux,Software and Technology by Tohir

As usual, I could have got this right first time if my brain registered better. Assuming you have the latester version. First of all, you NEED the Xampp Development Package. Go to the download page at: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374

You’ll find:

• Xampp Download Version 1.x.x
• Xampp Upgrade Version
• Xampp Development Version

You’d never guess how long it took me to find this. The next step to remember is:

• Xampp Development Version is an ADDITIONAL package, not a replacement package. You still need to download the full version if you are doing this for the first time, and do not remove your existing version if you have one. Would be wise to back up though – just in case.

Once you have uncompressed the archive, you’ll have access to phpize that you need. From there, you can proceed to install from source – see http://xdebug.org/install.php. For some reason, the PECL installation didn’t work for me.