Ubuntu 10.04 Broke XAMPP

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For some reason the upgrade seems to have installed Apache which then conflicts with my XAMPP apache.

This prevents me from starting the XAMPP apache. To fix this simply search for apache in Synaptic package manager and uninstall it. XAMPP apache should then start fine.