11-01-2012, 06:53 PM
No you don`t must install xamp on Linux xamp= (Apache, MySQL, PHP und Perl) that all you will have in linux!
To change the max_allowed_packet Value in Linux just add max_allowed_packet=100M in the my.cnf in the Folder /etc
after that restart the mysql server with the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart

