If you don’t know which version of Ubuntu you are running, just type:

cat /etc/issue

If you are using ubuntu 6.06 you just need to run.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server

If you are under anything more recent that 6.06

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

After this we need to install xdebug.

sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug

To activate and configure xdebug, we need to edit php.ini

nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

In the end of the file, just add

xdebug.remote_enable=On
xdebug.remote_host="localhost"
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"

If you are developing from another computer, we need to specify that ip address under xdebug.remote_host.

We restart the server

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And we are done.

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