Is it possible to use xdebug on Ubuntu?

Question

I am trying to debug some PHP code and wanted to download the XDebug debugger for PHP. All I see there is Windows binaries for downloading. Is it at all possible to use it

Answer 1

On a newer Ubuntu (at least on 14.04 LTS), I needed to activate the module as well. So, in total I did:

sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug
sudo php5enmod xdebug

After a restart of the server, xdebug was available.