Perl not found?

Question

I try to run a pl script in the console. It shows me this error:

bash: ./vmware-install.pl /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: no such file or directory. 

What does it mean?

whereis perl

returns just

perl:

And which perl returs: no perl in .... (bunch of folders)

I have Fedora 18

Answer 1

I'd suspect Perl is not where it should be.

The way to check is with which perl. If this dosen't give you a location, perl is not in your path (for extra credit, try whereis perl if which perl works).

If perl isn't in your path, you'll get perl: not cool. Time to ransack the system.

We can use locate to find anything called, or containing perl. You're probably looking for a binary. So we can try locate perl|grep bin - this should find any file called curl, and return any path which contains bin in it. In theory, you can find the full path here, and run /path/to/perl vmware-install.pl and it should work. I'd also consider the fact you may end up needing to do this as root, if its the script I think it is.

If perl is still not there, I'd ponder the unspeakable horrors your OS must have faced, since perl is generally installed by default.

Answer 2

yum install perl

Try this before running your command again. Seems like perl isn't installed on your system.