Bash Config

[iGuy]

I have installed bash; but if I launch it I get the following:

Welcome to Darwin!
[iMac:~] [MY USER NAME]% bash
dyld: bash Undefined symbols:
_tgetent
_tgetflag
_tgetnum
_tgetstr
_tgoto
_tputs
Trace/BPT trap
[iMac:~][MY USER NAME]%

... So can anyone help? Running Jaguar.

Thanks

 

[anarchie]

It appears you've installed a version of bash not built properly for OS X. The bash which comes with OS X works fine. Try downloading the bash source and building it from that. If you don't know how to build it, read the README and INSTALL files.

 

[iGuy]

Actually, this is ver. 2.05 for OS X, downloaded from:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/bashthegnubourneagainshell.html.
I have tried a source compile with similar results.

 

[DMCrimson]

use desinstaller to remove the installed package, this may actually have screwed up some stuff, for bash is in jaguars default installation, and I believe it's been differently compiled... In worst case scenario, you'd have to do a reinstall/upgrade of your system software

 

[iGuy]

Thank you DMCrimson.

You know, I did not know that the bash shell was included in the 10.2. It was not in 10.1.

I did not know that downloaded shells should be installed in /etc/shells

It is not that I am not UNIX compatable.

I am not sure that OS X is UNIX compatable.

I am not in Kansas anymore.

- iGuy