./configure : /bin/sh^M : bad interpreter
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I've been trying to install lpng142 on my fed 12 system. Seems like a problem to me. I get this error
[root@localhost lpng142]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@localhost lpng142]#
How do I fix this? The /etc/fstab
file:
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Wed May 26 18:12:05 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=ce67cf79-22c3-45d4-8374-bd0075617cc8 /boot ext4
defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Linux Solutions
Solution 1 - Linux
To fix, open your script with vi or vim and enter in vi command mode (key Esc), then type this:
:set fileformat=unix
Finally save it
:x!
or :wq!
Solution 2 - Linux
Looks like you have a dos line ending file. The clue is the ^M
.
You need to re-save the file using Unix line endings.
You might have a dos2unix
command line utility that will also do this for you.
Solution 3 - Linux
Or if you want to do this with a script:
sed -i 's/\r//' filename
Solution 4 - Linux
Your configure file contains CRLF line endings (windows style) instead of simple LF line endings (unix style). Did you transfer it using FTP mode ASCII from Windows?
You can use
dos2unix configure
to fix this, or open it in vi and use :%s/^M//g;
to substitute them all (use CTRL+V, CTRL+M to get the ^M)
Solution 5 - Linux
You can use following command to fix
cat file_name.sh | tr -d '\r' > file_name.sh.new
Solution 6 - Linux
If you could not found run the command,
CentOS:
# yum install dos2unix*
# dos2unix filename.sh
dos2unix: converting file filename.sh to Unix format ...
Ubuntu / Debian:
# apt-get install dos2unix
Solution 7 - Linux
This usually happens when you have edited a file from Windows and now trying to execute that from some unix based machine.
The solution presented on Linux Forum worked for me (many times):
perl -i -pe's/\r$//;' <file name here>
Hope this helps.
PS: you need to have perl installed on your unix/linux machine.
Solution 8 - Linux
Thanks to pwc101's comment on this post, this command worked in Kali Linux .
sed -i s/{ctrl+v}{ctrl+m}// {filename}
Make sure you replace the bits in brackets, {}
. I.e. {ctrl+m}
means press Ctrl key and the M key together.
Solution 9 - Linux
If you're on OS X, you can change line endings in XCode by opening the file and selecting the
View -> Text -> Line Endings -> Unix
menu item, then Save. This is for XCode 3.x. Probably something similar in XCode 4.
Solution 10 - Linux
Following on from Richard's comment. Here's the easy way to convert your file to UNIX line endings. If you're like me you created it in Windows Notepad and then tried to run it in Linux - bad idea.
- Download and install yourself a copy of Notepad++ (free).
- Open your script file in Notepad++.
- File menu -> Save As ->
- Save as type:
Unix script file (*.sh;*.bsh)
- Copy the new .sh file to your Linux system
- Maxe it executable with:
chmod 755 the_script_filename
- Run it with:
./the_script_filename
Any other problems try this link.
Solution 11 - Linux
If you are using TextMate or a similar programme, do save as, and then in encodings choose LF
instead of CRLF
.
Solution 12 - Linux
When you write your script on windows environment and you want to run it on unix environnement you need to be careful about the encodage :
dos2unix $filePath
Solution 13 - Linux
Just adding sh before script name make it work in my case.
Solution 14 - Linux
Use the dos2unix command in linux to convert the saved file. example :
dos2unix file_name
Solution 15 - Linux
You can also do this in Kate.
- Open the file
- Open the Tools menu
- Expand the End Of Line submenu
- Select UNIX
- Save the file.