AW: FLUKA error in Ubuntu

Dear Ariel,
naturally one cannot judge whether there is a problem with an input file
without it being available. However, from the diagnostics that you've
posted you are indeed right to assume that the problem is OS or rather
shell related. The problem is that it has been a (maybe unfortunate)
common practice of Linux distributions to link /bin/sh to bash and as a
consequence bash syntax was always supported even if the "plain" bourne
shell was specified at the beginning of a script.

However, Ubuntu uses the Debian Almquist shell (dash) as a lightweight
replacement for the bourne shell and dash enforces strict compliance
with the POSIX standard only! I would suspect that this is the cause of
the error message that you have encountered.
For more info see (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh)

Anyway, the message that you have seen should not pose a serious problem
as the simulations should run & exit gracefully. I'd suggest that you
try to either change your shell environment to bash (see the link above)
or replace the first line in the "rfluka" script with the following one:

!/bin/bash

Naturally, you will have to have bash installed on your system for this
to work!

Hope that helps
Chris

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Von: owner-fluka-discuss@mi.infn.it im Auftrag von Ariel Shnitzer
Gesendet: Do 10.07.2008 22:50
An: fluka-discuss@fluka.org
Betreff: FLUKA error in Ubuntu
Good day everyone, I am getting an error message when trying to run
FLUKA in Ubuntu 8.04 and was hoping for some assistance.
To compile and link, I use terminal to go to my fluka directory after
copying the modified source.f file.
$FLUPRO/flutil/fff usermvax/source.f
$FLUPRO/flutil/lfluka -o myslab -m fluka $FLUPRO/usermvax/source.o
Then in my geometry directory, I type:
$FLUPRO/flutil/rfluka -e $FLUPRO/myslab -N0 -M1 slab
This outputs to the terminal:
$TARGET_MACHINE =3D Linux
$FLUPRO =3D /home/ariel/myfluarea
/home/ariel/myfluarea/libec_thihecufealw_10t.pemf
7329: old priority 0, new priority 10
Initial seed already existing
Running fluka in /home/ariel/radphys/slab/fluka_7329
Running FLUKA for cycle # 1=20
Removing links
Removing temporary files
Saving output and random number seed
      No ranslab002 generated!
Saving additional files generated
 321: unexpected operator
End of FLUKA run
I have had problems before with Ubuntu being "too" user-friendly, am I
just missing some package that lets terminal interpret the   -e
command? The user next to me is running on OpenSUSE 10.3, and using
the exact same procedure, the script runs fine.  Thanks,
                        Ariel Shnitzer