Quoting Cian Duffy, from the post of Tue, 26 Oct:
Assuming that you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL to run, there should be no reason why you can't get it to run. You may be missing advanced features like the TeX support and the ImageMagick support, but once you've got AMP configured, you should be good to go.
what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?