[Fusionforge-general] Installationproblem

Roland Mas lolando at debian.org
Fri Oct 9 11:09:12 CEST 2009


Holger Schramm, 2009-10-09 10:36:51 +0200 :

> Hi Roland,
> first of all thank you for your reply.
>
> Can you elaborate a little more on this part, please:
>
>>A short-term workaround would be to temporarily use bash as /bin/sh.
>>A better fix would be to explicitly invoke bash's read command with
>>"/bin/bash -c".  There might be a way to do it in a shell-independent
>>way, too, but I'm not too sure.

  "rm /bin/sh && ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh".  Or maybe "chsh /bin/bash".
Yes, it's ugly, and you'd better be sure bash is installed beforehand.

> I am on an OpenVZ virtual server, running Ubuntu, and was trying to install
> Gforge AS in the first place, to find out, that this won't work as i
> intended it to (the ISP only has Ubuntu, Debian and Suse, and personally, i
> do not like Suse); so i gave it a try with gforge-metapackage, but it ended
> up in a mess. 

  What kind of mess?

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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