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Bug 72267

Summary:	Linux installer requires bc and fails to report so in a friendly manner
Product:	installer	Reporter:	_ hair <hair>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	mslama <mslama>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description _ hair 2006-02-05 14:30:43 UTC

The netbeans-profiler-5_0-linux.bin dumps (over and over again)

 line 189: bc: command not found
 line 404: [: : integer expression expected

Pretty obvious to a competent linux user, but linux is being adopted by many not
so competent users at an increasing rate.

All requirements for the install script should be checked and reported in a
friendly way.

Comment 1 mslama 2006-02-20 09:58:56 UTC

Iterate PATH if bc is present. If not print nicer error message to console.

Comment 2 mslama 2007-07-26 10:50:45 UTC

Fixed for NB 6.0: New installer engine does not depend on 'bc'.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 65482 ***

Comment 3 _ hair 2007-09-29 13:18:14 UTC

verified