Lampp fails to start

[rabidmachine9]

Hello I was trying to resolve a conflict in my Apache installation,
and following a suggestion in this post:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/60558/how-i-can-turn-off-unknown-webserver-apache-probably
I executed this command:

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sudo aptitude purge apache2

This didn't solve the problem at all,
instead every-time I'm trying to start Lampp I get this message:

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name:~$ sudo $LAMPP start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.7...
/opt/lampp/share/lampp/phpstatus: line 4: /opt/lampp/bin/php: No such file or directory
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL ...
/opt/lampp/bin/apachectl: 102: /opt/lampp/bin/httpd: not found
XAMPP: Error 127! Couldn't start Apache!
XAMPP: Starting diagnose...
XAMPP: Sorry, I've no idea what's going wrong.
XAMPP: Please contact our forum http://community.apachefriends.org/f/
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
/opt/lampp/bin/mysql.server: 256: /opt/lampp/bin/my_print_defaults: not found
XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP: /opt/lampp/lampp: line 333: /opt/lampp/sbin/proftpd: No such file or directory
XAMPP: Error 127! Couln't start ProFTPD!
XAMPP for Linux started.

I'm also pretty sure all my db's are deleted which is a real pain...
but can somebody please tell me what's going on ?
I'm on ubuntu 11.10.
thanks in advance for any help

[rabidmachine9]

really?
there are no indications on what might have happened ?

[JonB]

To whichever of you posted the original question - if you created the databases under LAMPP - I see no way that the command you issued would delete them - NOR do I see how you would have broken LAMPP.

Good luck