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  Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-08 20:50 +0200
    Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-08 21:00 +0200
      Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-07-08 21:10 +0200
      Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-08 22:20 +0200
        Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-08 22:20 +0200
          Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-08 22:50 +0200
          Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2019-07-10 21:30 +0200
            Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-10 21:50 +0200
    Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-07-08 21:00 +0200

#211028 — Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:40:18PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> 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...

Whoever wrote this shell script does not know what they're doing.  You've
uncovered 2 bugs in it already.  There are probably a few hundred more.

As a workaround, because you do not have direct access to the script
(apparently it's in the downloaded payload), you may have to change
your /bin/sh symlink to point to bash instead of dash.  You may either
leave it there, or change it back, after this is done.

I would give serious consideration to finding a non-broken alternative
to whatever this thing is, except there probably isn't any alternative,
and you're stuck with it.

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#211031

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> It came from the Biovia web site.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.            Life is a fuzzy set
> http://www.Molecular-Modeling.net   Multivariate and stochastic

Like I know what a "Biovia" is.

I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
to conform to whatever it requires.

Good luck.

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#211036

On 07/08/2019 02:55 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> It came from the Biovia web site.
>>
>> -- 
>> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.            Life is a fuzzy set
>> http://www.Molecular-Modeling.net   Multivariate and stochastic
> Like I know what a "Biovia" is.
>
> I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
> therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
> it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
> to conform to whatever it requires.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
https://www.3dsbiovia.com/

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.            Life is a fuzzy set
http://www.Molecular-Modeling.net   Multivariate and stochastic
614.312.7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

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#211042

On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > It came from the Biovia web site.
> 
> Like I know what a "Biovia" is.

It looks like a company to me.

> I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
> therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
> it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
> to conform to whatever it requires.

Like Gnu, Linux, TeX, Python, …?

Cheers,
David.

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#211043

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:09:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > > It came from the Biovia web site.
> > 
> > Like I know what a "Biovia" is.
> 
> It looks like a company to me.
> 
> > I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
> > therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
> > it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
> > to conform to whatever it requires.
> 
> Like Gnu, Linux, TeX, Python, …?

Like scripts that are written for bash but with a #!/bin/sh shebang
because they only tested on one CentOS box.

Wouldn't surprise me if they parse the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to
get information to create/validate a license key.  And oh boy will THAT
be fun, if that's the case, now that eth0 is not an officially valid
interface name, and /sbin/ifconfig is not installed by default, and even
if you DO install it, its output format has changed.

But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and the /bin/sh symlink will be
the only backflip required.

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#211045

On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 16:13:56 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:09:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > > > It came from the Biovia web site.
> > > 
> > > Like I know what a "Biovia" is.
> > 
> > It looks like a company to me.
> > 
> > > I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
> > > therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
> > > it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
> > > to conform to whatever it requires.
> > 
> > Like Gnu, Linux, TeX, Python, …?
> 
> Like scripts that are written for bash but with a #!/bin/sh shebang
> because they only tested on one CentOS box.
> 
> Wouldn't surprise me if they parse the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to
> get information to create/validate a license key.  And oh boy will THAT
> be fun, if that's the case, now that eth0 is not an officially valid
> interface name, and /sbin/ifconfig is not installed by default, and even
> if you DO install it, its output format has changed.
> 
> But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and the /bin/sh symlink will be
> the only backflip required.

And this only happens in academia? 

Cheers,
David.

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#211179

On 08/07/2019 21:13, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 03:09:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 14:55:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>>> It came from the Biovia web site.
>>> Like I know what a "Biovia" is.
>> It looks like a company to me.
>>
>>> I'm guessing it has something to do with "Molecular-Modeling", and
>>> therefore I lump it into the broad category of "academia", which means
>>> it's poorly written but "works" as long as you build your entire machine
>>> to conform to whatever it requires.
>> Like Gnu, Linux, TeX, Python, …?
> Like scripts that are written for bash but with a #!/bin/sh shebang
> because they only tested on one CentOS box.
>
> Wouldn't surprise me if they parse the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to
> get information to create/validate a license key.  And oh boy will THAT
> be fun, if that's the case, now that eth0 is not an officially valid
> interface name, and /sbin/ifconfig is not installed by default, and even
> if you DO install it, its output format has changed.

Point of order. There' s nothing wrong with "eth0" as an interface name.
It's perfectly valid. It's perfectly legal. It's just not the default.
If you want to rename interfaces, that's a well-respected path. It may
be that "eth0" (zeroth ethernet device) is a more meaningful name to you
than enp0s1 (ethernet card in the first PCI slot) or "dmz" (the ethernet
device connected to the DMZ). If so, go for it.

>
> But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and the /bin/sh symlink will be
> the only backflip required.
>

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#211184

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:18:31PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 08/07/2019 21:13, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Wouldn't surprise me if they parse the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0 to
> > get information to create/validate a license key.  And oh boy will THAT
> > be fun, if that's the case, now that eth0 is not an officially valid
> > interface name, and /sbin/ifconfig is not installed by default, and even
> > if you DO install it, its output format has changed.
> 
> Point of order. There' s nothing wrong with "eth0" as an interface name.
> It's perfectly valid. It's perfectly legal. It's just not the default.

... reading ...

OK, I guess it *is* still supported if you use a ".link file".  So, if
the OP needs to mimic that particular aspect of the Biovia target system,
they can do so.  It'll just be totally different from the way it was
done in older Debian releases.

I'm just guessing about the "license key based on parsing ifconfig eth0"
thing, but it *is* something I've seen vendors do before (I have
personally experienced it).  It's not something I just made up.  And the
word "license" *has* come up in this thread, so... we'll see.

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#211033

On 07/08/2019 02:44 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:40:18PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>> 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...
> Whoever wrote this shell script does not know what they're doing.  You've
> uncovered 2 bugs in it already.  There are probably a few hundred more.
>
> As a workaround, because you do not have direct access to the script
> (apparently it's in the downloaded payload), you may have to change
> your /bin/sh symlink to point to bash instead of dash.  You may either
> leave it there, or change it back, after this is done.
>
> I would give serious consideration to finding a non-broken alternative
> to whatever this thing is, except there probably isn't any alternative,
> and you're stuck with it.
>
>

It came from the Biovia web site.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.            Life is a fuzzy set
http://www.Molecular-Modeling.net   Multivariate and stochastic
614.312.7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

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