Xampp suddenly requesting 32bit libs

Xampp was working perfectly until yesterday. but now it tells me:

XAMPP is currently only availably as 32 bit application. Please use a 32 bit compatibility library for your system.

This is very strange, because it was working without problems. I don't know exactly what happened! Anyway, I was about to install 32bit libs but found them no longer available.

Something maybe related to the issue, today I was trying to install composer dependency manager but failed. Also yesterday I did semi update to my system.

• Ubuntu 14.4 64 bit
• Xampp 1.8.3-4

XAMPP is a toy version of the lamp-server^ task.

I can see some benefits on systems where LAMP is harder to set up but seriously, you can't convince me that playing around with a non-production system is going to beat developing on what's likely to be your production environment.

Even if you aren't considering running it in a production role, the production bullet in the LAMPP Linux FAQ should be enough to terrify you into not using it.

My advice is to remove XAMPP and run:

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ phpmyadmin php5-gd 

You'll end up with a system that is used on thousands (possibly millions) of servers and it'll give you a good jump on server administration.

Failing that, it seems like you've installed the 32bit version. You could mess around fulfilling the dependencies manually (beugh) or you could just download the 64bit version from the XAMPP download page.