Q:

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

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

A:

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.

