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Hi guys,
I'm trying to install XAMPP on my Linux Mint 16 Petra (Mate interface),
But i get an error, thats what I did:

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mehdi@Mintos ~ $ chmod 755 ./Downloads/xampp.run
mehdi@Mintos ~ $ sudo ./Downloads/xampp.run
[sudo] password for mehdi:


Then a installing software appear and i follow the steps,
Suddenly it close without any message and i get this on Terminal:

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unable to alloc 78639686 bytes


Hi there!
Running the xampp installer as root will solve the problem

Activate root login in ubuntu by setting root password.
e.g. sudo passwd root and type your password

in command prompt, type
su - root
and enter your root password

and now go to xampp installer folder and run it as
sudo ./xampp-your-download-version.run

Enjoy

I'm getting a similar problem installing 1.8.3 on SUSE Enterprise (64-bit) on an Amazon EC2 server.

Even after relogging with root, when I run the command:

sudo ./xampp-myversionetc-installer.run

it gets as far as "Please wait while Setup installs XAMPP on your computer.

Then I get:
####unable to realloc 83886080 bytes

I'm very much a linux newbie, so it could be something very obvious that I'm missing. Any help gratefully received!

Cormack wrote:Then I get:
####unable to realloc 83886080 bytes

I'm very much a linux newbie, so it could be something very obvious that I'm missing. Any help gratefully received!

Maybe your server is simply out of memory?? Thats basically what this message means. We dont know the configuration of your server (and i even dont know how much memory is needed for the installation), but it seems, that there is a bottleneck.

I was having the same problem. My web browser had been open, so I closed it, and it worked.