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But have a look at xampp
:
https://www.apachefriends.org/...

It, and it "spiritual" peers, wampp (Windows)

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

mampp (Mac)

http://www.mamp.info/en/

Are commonly used in my local wordpress community for doing web dev work, as is the also mentioned bitnami

I've just been playing around with LAMP using VirtualBox on Windows and this is the procedure I use to setup a test server.

For the record, I'm not recommending you use VirtualBox to host 2500 users, although it is an easy way to practice.

1. Install Linux Mint. I use Linux Mint because it's the most user friendly distro I've found, but any Ubuntu-based distro should do.

2. Use the Package Manager to install Apache, mySQL and PHP. The trick is to search for "apache meta", "mysql meta" and "php meta". Adding "meta" or "metapackage" in the search string restricts the search to metapackages, which are the currently recommended version of the associated package with the most common add-ons. I install both "mysql-server" and "mysql-client".

The installation of Apache, mySQL and PHP using the Package Manager is completely automated, except during the installation of mySQL it will stop and ask you for a root password for your installation.

3. I usually use the package manager to install "phpmyadmin" to admin my mySQL database. Note, there is no "metapackage" associated with "phpmyadmin".

4. Searching for "phpbb3" in the package manager turns up phpBB 3 as an installable package.

Having said all that, you're probably better off if you used one of the commonly available WAMP server packages.

But it only takes about 60 seconds with a web browser [tinyurl.com] to give you a very complete, concise answer

The first link in your Let-Me-google-that-for-you results points to:
this page

blah blah blah...
ote: to install applications from source code, you will need a C++ compiler (gcc++) installed. This is generally taken care of, but I've had enough queries about it that I've added this note to avoid getting more! You can use your distribution's install CDs to get the proper version of the compiler. Or, if you are using an RPM based distro, you can use a site like http://www.rpmfind.net/ to locate the correct RPM version for your system. (You will obviously not be able to use/rebuild a source RPM to get the compiler installed, as you need the compiler to build the final binary RPM!) On a Fedora system, you can do this command:

su - root
yum install gcc gcc-c++

Log in as root

Because we will be installing softwa...
blah..rpm -qa

in conjunction with grep to filter your results:

rpm -qa | grep -i apache
rpm -qa | grep -i httpd
rpm -qa | grep -i php
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

while the first link from "wamp install" is:
this

1 Download the latest release of Wampserver 2
2 Optionally add as much Apache, PHP and MySQL releases as you want
3 Work with a development environment that reproduces exactly your production server

Seriously WTF... if even installing Open Source software is easier in Windows than in Linux... then I understand why people is reluctant to move to Linux. (e.g., where are the portableapps for Linux?, download-click-use)

Contrary to what a lot of people are suggesting, you don't need extra computers at all (in fact, recycle all those old ones, they're only taking up space).

You don't need to worry about performance if you're just learning the basics, and so there's no reason for all kinds of over-engineered setups like separate development and testing environments and stuff. Spend too much time setting up all this junk and you won't have any time left to actually write code.

I do all my development on my laptop. I'm running Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Rails, most of which come stock with OS X, and that's all I need. Add VMware for testing sites in IE and you're done. If you're using Windows, check out WAMP; if you have a Mac, either try MAMP or use the stuff that came with the system (you'll have to install MySQL separately in this case, which is what I did); if you're running another *nix variant it's all just an apt-get or yum away.

I was working with 2GB RAM which was fine for everything but VMware and just yesterday upgraded to 4GB. Two is usable though, so don't even consider this a requirement. As far as that goes, don't worry about testing in IE at all if you're really just doing stuff to learn. Worry about that if/when you decide to make something public. Skip VMware and you can do it all in 1GB easy.

However, it's also perfectly possible to run WAMP. Apache!=Linux, even though Linux is the most common platform to run it on.

true, ever try to compile php5 with extensions,apache 2,mysql5 on 64bit suse 10? nightmare so many dependencies to compile

same took 1 minute to instal on windows using wampserver

http://www.en.wampserver.com/

WAMP (windows - apache - mysql - php) server is a cool thing I found if you want a quick and integrated solution to developing with mysql/php on windows systems. It puts a little icon in your dock that is similar to the start menu and you can start/stop all servers and enable/disable php modules, etc. It also comes with phpMyAdmin for managing the mysql databases. It's one big executable with installer and theres no admin stuff to deal with before you start programming. Not that any of the admin stuff is particularly difficult, just extremely annoying considering the frequency of changes to php and apache.

http://www.en.wampserver.com/

http://www.wampserver.com/

apache with php and mysql
there are also modules to be able to switch from php4 to 5

Oh dear. You ARE a bit behind the times. Wamp or XAMPP will both run WP just fine.