I re-downloaded the tar again and got the same thing. I copied it over to an 8.04 VMWare image and got the same thing. Is there something special I need to do for 8.5 in Ubuntu?
The install file is just a shell script. If you run “file install” it should come back with “install: ASCII English text” and you should be able to edit it and see such. What is it showing for you? There is nothing in the install script that should be affected by Ubuntu vs another Linux distro.
Too see if it is getting further, try the following:
su -
cd LOCATION_OF_KIT
sh -x ./install
and see where the failure occurs - maybe it’s having a problem on the perl side invoked by install.
I think I may be missing a package, but I’m not sure what. I installed 8.0.4 with all the standard opts, then installed gawk. Then I tried running the installer. I can’t get 8.0.2 or 8.5b2 to install. I followed the instructions here: Ubuntu Forums. I used them when I set this up back in May and it went flawlessly. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong now.
Here’s the output of sh -x ./install
root@domino-ubuntu:/home/notes/Desktop/linux/domino# sh -x ./install -console
The install script gets to line 136, where it calls CdPath. I threw some echos into the CdPath function and it never did anything, so I think it’s the CdPath.pl script in the tools folder. I don’t know anything at all about perl, so I’m stuck.
Now I’m going to compare the 8.0.2 install script and CdPath.pl files to the 8.5 b2 versions and see what the differences are.