Newbie installing Xampp

irene@briospa.com · *nix forums beginner Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

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

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