a downloaded program will not function, and bash states that it does not exist!

[Keary Suska]

on 4/23/02 3:17 PM, dwright5@nyc.rr.com purportedly said:

> Greetings, yellow doggers, i have a question/problem,... any ideas?
> I am wondering why this perl program i downloaded does not work and in fact
> states that it does not exist! even when run as root. I am running perl 5.6,
> perl is at /usr/bin/perl and that is what is requested at txt2pdf.pl she bang
> line. This is appears to be a cool program, if i could get it to work,... it
> changes a text file into a pdf, apperently i downloaded it from the authors
> site: http://www.sanface.com
> 
> [davidwri@RR txt2pdf-5.6]$ ./txt2pdf.pl
> bash: ./txt2pdf.pl: No such file or directory

This usually means that your hash-bang is invalid. Either /usr/bin/perl
doesn't really exist (what does ls -l /usr/bin/perl* produce?), or is a link
to a nonexistent file.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"