Installing Outlook messanger

pratapchiluveru · 04-18-2009, 12:53 AM

Hello everybody. Here I have a small installation problem.
I downloaded outlookmessanger.sh, and try to run it on my fedora 8 box. It gives me the following error
[pratap@localhost Desktop]$ ./outlookmessenger.sh

bash: ./outlookmessenger.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I open it with vi editor and try to search for ^M using :s/^M. But it is not located in that file.
Can any one suggest me what to do.
The .sh file contains the script and some unreadable text.

Thanks in advance!

repo · 04-18-2009, 03:01 AM

try

Code:

chmod +x outlookmessenger.sh
./outlookmessenger.sh

pratapchiluveru · 04-19-2009, 06:34 AM

hi repo! Thank you for your replay
I did that, still I get the same error

repo · 04-19-2009, 06:40 AM

try

Code:

sh outlookmessenger.sh

pratapchiluveru · 04-19-2009, 07:54 AM

I ran the program as root. Still same problem

repo · 04-19-2009, 08:08 AM

can you give the output from the command you used ?

jdkaye · 04-19-2009, 08:10 AM

The control M (^M) may indicate that the script contains Windows style end of lines. What is the output of

Code:

ls -l outlookmessenger.sh

jdk

michaelk · 04-19-2009, 09:23 AM

jdkaye is correct the script contains DOS end of line characters.
There are lots of ways to convert the file. Using vi:
:set ff=unix
:w

repo · 04-19-2009, 09:44 AM

I downloaded the file

here is the beginning

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.4

CRCsum="4114746320"
MD5="c7a6464742f49fec245bf7829b91c1c1"
TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}

label="nixstaller"
script="sh"
scriptargs="./startupinstaller.sh"
targetdir="tmp"
filesizes="1872585"
keep=n

print_cmd_arg=""

Code:

repo@cannabis:~/download$ ./outlookmessenger.sh 
bash: ./outlookmessenger.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
repo@cannabis:~/download$ sh outlookmessenger.sh 
OK
repo@cannabis:~/download$

so

Code:

sh outlookmessenger.sh

works
I have added the 2 lines at the beginning of the file, in order to test without installing :-)

Code:

echo OK
exit

pratapchiluveru · 04-20-2009, 01:14 AM

Thanks friends for your suggestion. Now I am able to execute that, but When try to give this
sh outlookmessanger.sh It is giving me the following error

: command not found.sh: line 3:
: command not found.sh: line 7:
: command not found.sh: line 14:
outlookmessenger(2).sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
'utlookmessenger(2).sh: line 18: `elif test -x /usr/ucb/echo; then

the starting lines of the outlookmessanger.sh is

#!/bin/sh
# This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.4

CRCsum="4114746320"
MD5="c7a6464742f49fec245bf7829b91c1c1"
TMPROOT=${TMPDIR:=/tmp}

label="nixstaller"
script="sh"
scriptargs="./startupinstaller.sh"
targetdir="tmp"
filesizes="1872585"
keep=n

print_cmd_arg=""
if type printf > /dev/null; then
print_cmd="printf"
elif test -x /usr/ucb/echo; then
print_cmd="/usr/ucb/echo"
else
print_cmd="echo"
fi

what might he the reason?

repo · 04-20-2009, 05:24 AM

Quote:

: command not found.sh: line 3:
: command not found.sh: line 7:
: command not found.sh: line 14:
outlookmessenger(2).sh: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
'utlookmessenger(2).sh: line 18: `elif test -x /usr/ucb/echo; then

Seems to me the script is poorly written.
look at lines 3,7,14 and 18

pratapchiluveru · 04-20-2009, 11:15 PM

can't we do anything. I downloaded it from www.outlookmessenger.com

repo · 04-21-2009, 12:27 AM

Perhaps you can contact the developers ?

pratapchiluveru · 04-21-2009, 11:06 PM

thank you!
I will try to contact them

jlinkels · 04-23-2009, 06:15 PM

on line 3,7 and 14 there is nothing but a blank line.
The error on line 18 seems to be unjustified, it looks as there is no syntax error.

Run the script with sh -x outlookmessenger.sh

jlinkels