Open terminal and run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql mysql-server
sudo apt-get install php5-gd phpmyadmin php5-curl
sudo reboot
For symbolic links, you need to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file adding the next lines after DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
AllowOverride None
PS. Quotes does not show so look the picture!
For permissions run:
sudo usermod -a -G www-data your_username_here
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html