Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string - running .run file

Question

I am trying to run a .run file, I log in as SU and run the following command:

sh xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run

but I am getting the following error:

 Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

What is the cause of this?

Answer 1

The cause is probably an unterminated quoted string in the installer. (well duh!).

Either run it with the -x option to get more debug information, or open the installer in an editor and look for unmatched pairs of quotes.

Example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#My demo installer!
#
echo "starting here!"
echo "and an error in this line
echo "We will never get here!"

Notice the missing closing quote (") in the second echo line.

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Edit:

I just downloaded a file called xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run from sourceforge (which I assume is the same file as you are using) and when I opened it in vim I noticed it starts with ^?ELF^. This file seems to be an ELF binary.

Using the file command on it confirms this:
file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped

It is not a shell script and the normal way to execute it would either be:

1. xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run (assuming the directory is in your search path),
2. or with the full path prepended. E.g. ./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run if you are already in the same directory where the file is. (This is why @erhun's answer worked).

Answer 2

It will work with this way.

chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run
./xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-1-installer.run

Answer 3

I tried to install xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-2-installer.run and had the same message. None of these answers worked for me because I think this is the x64 bit version and I was trying to install it on a 32bit Linux Mint.

Instead I downloaded xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run (notice the lack of x64 in the file name) and this one worked. I did the chmod , then sudo ./xampp-linux-1.8.3-2-installer.run and after good few seconds i had the gui installer running.

PS. You'll need to go to sourceforge because apachefriends.org website will give you x64 version as default download.

Answer 4

Looks not a problem with 64-bit OS.

I got same error and 'uname -m' can confirm it (displays x86_64), although I was already sure specifically purchase 64-bit machine.

Looks like while downloading (wget for many hours, very slow mobile Internet), 'xampp-linux-x64-1.8.3-4-installer.run' got corrupted!