If you have Linux installed on your PC, then getting Apache, PHP, and MySQL is easy. You may already have these installed, but if not, then use the appropriate package manager for your version of Linux to install the missing software. Most likely, you will need to use either RPM or DEB packages. My favorite versions of Linux are Ubuntu and SUSE; installation of new packages in Ubuntu can be done easily in the console window using the following command:
apt-get install <package name>
For example,
apt-get install mysql
The downloading procedure for XOOPS is the same for both Windows and Linux. Since the web-based installation of XOOPS from this point onwards is exactly the same for a local installation as when you are using an outside third-party web-host provider, let us set up the requirements for the hosted live website before we show you how to use the web‑based installation of XOOPS.