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How to install program with .sh file in ubuntu?

Hello, I would like to install a small application called DHW page viewer on a computer that runs Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

I think this program was written for KDE because whenver I used to have SUSE the program would install very easily. But now I switched over to Ubuntu and when I try to double click on the file and install the program I get error messages inside a text editor.

How do I go about installing this program, is there anyway I can install the necessary components?

I really need this to work.

You can install a shell script by doing "sh filename.sh" in terminal

I get this error message whenever I try to run that command:

Code:

chacmool@link:~$ sh DHWPageViewer.sh

DHWPageViewer.sh: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

chacmool@link:~$

what should I do now?

Can you post the first 5 lines of the script? It looks like there's an error in the shell script code. This has nothing to do with GNOME or KDE BTW.

Ok,
whenever I double click on the .sh file this is what I get:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

function error()

{

        kdialog --error "$1" --title "Could not install Digital Handwriting Page Viewer"

        exit 1

}



if [ -z `which uudecode` ]

then

        error "You must have uudecode installed to run this installer."

fi



if [ -z `which tar` ]

then

        error "You must have tar installed to run this installer."

fi



if [ -z `which bzcat` ]

then

        error "You must have bzcat installed to run this installer."

fi



INSTALL=`kdialog --getexistingdirectory $PWD`

if [ -z $INSTALL ]

then

        error "You must specify an install directory that already exists."

fi



if [ `which kde-config` ]

then



#DESKTOP=`kde-config --expandvars --install xdgdata-apps`

DESKTOP="`kde-config --localprefix`/share/applnk"

mkdir -p $DESKTOP

touch $DESKTOP/DHWPageViewer.desktop || error "Could not create menu entry."

( cat > $DESKTOP/DHWPageViewer.desktop ) << DESKTOP_END

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Type=Application

Exec=/bin/sh $INSTALL/DHWPageViewer2.0/wrapper

Icon=$INSTALL/DHWPageViewer2.0/icon.png

Name=Digital Handwriting Page Viewer

Categories=Qt;KDE;Graphics

DESKTOP_END

kbuildsycoca --menutest &> /dev/null

fi



mkdir -p $INSTALL || error "Could not write to install directory."

cd $INSTALL

(uudecode -o /dev/stdout | bzcat -c | tar -xv ) << ENDOFWRAPPER

begin-base64 644 encoded.dat

I know for a fact the program works because whenever I had SUSE as I said I could install it using the .sh file without any problems

I need this file...

Is there any possible way that you could post the DHWPageViewer.sh file? I have been searching the internet and the original link is dead.

Thanks
Roger

Try using bash instead of sh

bash DHWPageViewer.sh

Most likely in your system sh is linked to dash instead of bash.

Good luck

Do chmod +x filename, then ./filename.