Bad interpreter: no such file or directory error when installing PEC

Products

• CA Harvest Software Change Manager - OpenMake Meister
• CA Harvest Software Change Manager
• CA Harvest Software Change Manager - OpenMake Meister

Issue/Introduction

When installing the PEC component of SCM on a Linux or Unix platform, sometimes you will see an error message:

./INSTALL.SH: /bin/ksh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory 

How can this be fixed so that PEC can be installed?

Environment

Harvest Software Change Manager 12.6 and up
Linux or Unix platforms

Cause

The reason for this is that the PEC installation script is written to operate in the "korn" shell. If this shell is not available on the Linux or Unix computer to which you want to install, you will see an error message as described above.

Resolution

The following command will correct the INSTALL.SH script by changing it's shell

sed -i 's/ksh/sh/g' INSTALL.SH