Hi all,

I am trying to install Xampp on my HP laptop 400mhz RedHat 7.3 (hu,
looks almost like retrocomputing). I got the source from
www.apachefriends.org and it installed fine. Apache and Php run (i
think) fine.

The problem is, I cannot get MySQL to run. I am staring at the
/opt/lampp/bin directory containing mysql_install_db, i type

$ mysql_install_db

and what I get is

bash: mysql_install_db: command not found

It is not even funny. The file IS there, I mean. It does the same with
any other executable like mysql or mysqladmin. I am probably still
thinking like a Windows-user, and I wrongly assume an executable is a
file you can execute when you call it - this is probably going to be
the dummest question ever asked about anything linux, but what do I
have to do to get the darn mysql_install_db going?

Thank you very much,

Zkyhavon

Hello

irene@briospa.com (<irene@briospa.com>) wrote:

> I am trying to install Xampp on my HP laptop 400mhz RedHat 7.3 (hu,
> looks almost like retrocomputing). I got the source from
> www.apachefriends.org and it installed fine. Apache and Php run (i
> think) fine.
>
> The problem is, I cannot get MySQL to run. I am staring at the
> /opt/lampp/bin directory containing mysql_install_db, i type
>
> $ mysql_install_db
>
> and what I get is
>
> bash: mysql_install_db: command not found

Probably /opt/lampp/bin is not in your path. On most distributions, the
default settings do not include the current working directory in the
path for security reasons. In that case you need to call the app with
the relative or absolute path:

$ cd /path/to
$ ./program
or
$ /path/to/program

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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