Perl command not found

Question

I am new to Unix. I am trying to Run a Perl script on Fedora 14 machine.

I wrote the script and saved it in a file called PerlOne.pl and changed its permission to 755. This is what it has

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "hello";

I tried to run it so I got

/usr/bin/perl : bad interpreter no such file or directory.

So I checked if I already have perl by typing

perl -v

I got

perl: command not found 

Is it possible that Fedora comes with no perl? or am I doing something wrong? if yes, then how can I install perl?

Any help would be appreciated =)

Answer 1

Run: yum list all | grep perl

If it doesn't show perl then you haven't got it installed.

So, install it using: yum install perl. You may need to run it as root.

Answer 2

Try searching Perl with :

find / -path '*bin/perl'

And copy-paste here the output of echo $PATH, I suspect it to be wrong.

EDIT seems like some Fedora distros don't put perl by default, see http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=254537

Answer 3

You can determine whether Perl is installed on your system by using the package manager that your system uses to install and keep track of software. In RedHat distros, the package manager is RPM.

So... To list all installed packages that have perl in their name, try:

rpm -ql | grep -i perl

(I'm suggesting using grep because IIRC rpm's internal queries are case sensitive.) If you see no results, then Perl probably isn't installed.

To install it, you'll probably use YUM: