Hi Guys, I'm an Apache newbie and struggling to install Apache 2.0.48 on Fedora Linux. When I try to run the configure script (with or without the prefix argument) I get an error : bad interpreter: no such file or directory Any clues ?? I guess there could be something fundamental missing for the compiler.

Thanks in advance

Try chmod u+x to allow script execution...

It would seem that whatever interpreter the configure file is trying to call is not there. Open that file (../path-to-file/configure) and see what the very first line says. "more configure" will open it, it should just be text shell script.

The first line should be something like:
#!/bin/sh

That line is the magic number that tells bash what interpreter to run this text-file/script through. e.g., is it a shell script (/bin/sh), a bash script (/bin/bash), a perl script (/usr/bin/perl)? Whatever is being pointed to there is not being found.

Check that the #! file actually exists, i.e. if it is a shell script, does /bin/sh exist? It should be a symlinking to /bin/bash. If not sure, change the first line to:
#!bin/bash

Check also for spaces, i.e. "! /bin/sh"

The configure script may also have wrong line endings (DOS format?) or a stray carriage-return (CR)- perhaps it has been FTP'd in binary mode instead of ASCII mode. Anyhow, try fixing the line endings using dos2unix:

dos2unix configure


- ricky n.

do you have a GNU cc installed?