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Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster



On 2019-07-08 20:46 +0200, Erwan David wrote:

> Le 08/07/2019 à 20:40, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit :
>> I have just installed Buster and have encountereda  a problem
>> attempting the installation of biovia_2019_.ds2019client.bin:
>>
>> comp@AbNormal:~/Downloads/DiscoveryStudio$ ./biovia_2019.ds2019client.bin
>> Verifying archive integrity...  100%   All good.
>> Uncompressing 'DS Client and extracting files, please wait ......' 100%
>> ./install_DSClient.sh: 49: ./install_DSClient.sh: [[: not found
>> ./install_DSClient.sh: 70: ./install_DSClient.sh: Syntax error:
>> redirection unexpected
>> Press Return to close this window...
>>
>> And not too surprising, Press Return did close the window.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas as to a solution?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> [[ is a bash built-in not defined in dash.
>
> It might be that the .bin file is a bash script presented as a sh one.

Probably not, since the file which complains is called
"/install_DSClient.sh".  The .bin file appears to be a self-extracting
archive which then runs the shell script.

> If file biovia_2019_.ds2019client.bin resturns "/bin/sh script" that
> would be almost sure. In that case try
>
> bash ./biovia_2019.ds2019client.bin to force bash interpreter

Most likely that will not work.  To use bash as /bin/sh for the biova
installer, switchsh[1] could be used instead.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://packages.debian.org/buster/switchsh


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