[FIXED] -bash: scripts/mysql_install_db: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Issue

can someone please help. I am trying to set install a LAMP server on Fedora 18 I kept getting an error message whenever i run the "scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql" command.

-bash: scripts/mysql_install_db: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

by the way, I want my 'P' to be a PHP and not Perl Below is how I went about the installation: $ groupadd mysql $ useradd -g msql -c "MySQL Server" mysql $ gzip... $ tar.... $ ln ... to create a symbolic link named (mysql) $ cd msql (pwd: /usr/local/mysql/) $ scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql

!!!Now this is when i get that error message!!!!!!.

Thanks in advance

Solution

It appears that the scripts you are trying to execute have CR+LF EOL marker. You can verify that by issuing:

file <filename>

(The output would contain with CRLF line terminators.)

Change it to LF and the scripts should execute fine. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline for more.

Answered By - devnull