Xampp I need help please

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Hi all new to Linux in general and very slowly trying to learn, so apologies if this is all basic to people

I have it installed, did that yesterday I know how to start it and start the GUI which I prefer but can live with just using sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start, but firstly I need to change the password in mysql (xampp) how do I do that? GUI option does not open up config to edit anything.

Secondly I tried sudo systemctl enable --now xampp.service so it would autostart but get an error saying Failed to enable unit: Unit xampp.service does not exist

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I’ve never had to use it so I can’t really give any pointers expect to maybe look here and see if you can find what you need

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Was just about to come back here to say I have done it lol, just went into opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and edited it :slight_smile:

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aweome that you figured it out

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I used xampp before in Windows but completely forgot where to edit lol, however seems I might need to ask chatgpt as to why sudo systemctl enable --now xampp.service is failing, it’s probably something simple but I have zero knowledge about linux

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We all forget stuff, I like to keep a few small txt files with things I need to remember to help me out

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If you post the output here someone may be able to help you, I would be careful using chatgpt for it as it can give results that are old or irrelevant

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Yeah doing the same as well such as starting xampp until I can get it to autostart.

Agreed with chatgpt I’m using it to help with C# and yeah it’s helpful if you know what to ask it, if it’s wrong and you know it’s wrong then you explain exactly what you want :slight_smile:

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What DE are you using? KDE has some stuff under system settings that may be of help

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Just checked the autostart section and added Steam and Xampp, now to restart PC to see if it does what I want

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Cool, hope it works for you, I don’t autostart stuff I just know there is a setting for it

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It didn’t work but I know it’s there and can fiddle until I get it right, then on to the next things like trying to install a game using wine. I will eventually crack it though lol

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Someone else may chime in later and be able to help some more with this, as with using wine for gaming I would suggest using something like heroic game launcher, lutris or bottles as they make it easier to manage

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Yeah just installed that but it’s only for when the games are actually installed which I mainly only really use steam tbh. Problem I’m having is actually installing a game which is for Windows but apparently run on linux, I only used wine to open it to install but yeah it didn’t install lol, I give up trying to install it I am attempting to copy the files from my Windows drive to a folder on the EndeavourOS desktop and will attempt to run it using Heroic game launcher fingers crossed

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Just clarifying, if it’s a Steam game, you should be able to launch it without messing around with Wine, in Steam. It’ll automatically use Proton (Vavle’s extension of Wine), to launch it. No additional launchers and wine helpers are strictly necesarry.

Now there’s sometimes a little more to it than that, as some games require specific versions of Proton, and certain tweaks etc. Check out ProtonDB for tips with respect to that.

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Not a steam game, I got it installed. I will however be sticking with Windows, VS code sucks and I use VS 2022 because of working with Winforms and netframework 4.8 neither can be installed on linux so until both can be installed on linux then I will have to pass