Activity for bash debugger

Rocky Bernstein modified ticket #78

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:00:33 -0000

test-get-sourceline.sh fail on WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04

Larry Corsa posted a comment on ticket #78

Larry Corsa — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:43:27 -0000

Cloned the repo above, and discovered there was no './configure' command in the new folder. Brute force copied everything from the cloned folder into the folder from the sourceforge tarball. Re-ran ./configure, make, make check. Test for 'test-sig' was skipped (wsl I presume), everything else passed. All seems well. Thanks, Larry

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on ticket #78

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:53:04 -0000

Works for me on a real Ubuntu with bash 5.2 using the current github 5.2 branch on https://github.com/Trepan-Debuggers/bashdb If you haven't tried using the latest on github, try that.

Larry Corsa created ticket #78

Larry Corsa — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:57:29 -0000

test-get-sourceline.sh fail on WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04

Rocky Bernstein modified ticket #75

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:34:01 -0000

Typo on web site

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on ticket #75

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:32:53 -0000

Sorry for not seeing this. Should be fixed now.

Rocky Bernstein committed [b40f29] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:21:41 -0000

Administrivia locations changed

bash debugger released /bashdb/5.2-1.2.0/NEWS.md

bash debugger — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:57:03 -0000

bash debugger released /bashdb/5.2-1.2.0/bashdb-5.2-1.2.0.tar.gz

bash debugger — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:57:03 -0000

bash debugger released /bashdb/5.2-1.2.0/bashdb-5.2-1.2.0.tar.bz2

bash debugger — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:57:03 -0000

Rocky Bernstein committed [b2dbda] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:39:10 -0000

Adjust reference to point to readthedocs

bash debugger released /zshdb/1.1.4/zshdb-1.1.4.tar.gz

bash debugger — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:03:03 -0000

bash debugger released /zshdb/1.1.4/zshdb-1.1.4.tar.bz2

bash debugger — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:03:03 -0000

Jokerwild posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Jokerwild — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:24:26 -0000

Rocky, sure, I will have a look at zshdb on GitHub, as you suggest.

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Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:37:11 -0000

@Jokerwild - I have created a github repository for this and copied all of the code there. If you have a github account, please suggest changes from the above as Pull Requests (PR's) there. Here is a suggestion for something to do that is both needed and will get understanding the code better. Look at https://github.com/rocky/zshdb/ and the more recent changes there. See if these can be applied to bashdb. When this project was started, there wasn't much in the way of linters for shell code. In the...

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Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:33:35 -0000

@Jokerwild - I have created a github repository for this and copied all of the code there. If you have a github account, please suggest changes as Pull Requests (PR's) there. Here is a suggestion for something to do that is both needed and will get understanding the code better. Look at https://github.com/rocky/zshdb/ and the more recent changes there. See if these can be applied to bashdb. When this project was started, there wasn't much in the way of linters for shell code. In the past I have used...

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Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:13:04 -0000

I am using Termux in Android without root, and my understanding of Bash is rather rudimentary, but I would like to help. I am a keen learner. I noted that the documentation didn't mention the ’git clone' download option, but I used it successfully: ’git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/bashdb/code bashdb-code’. The ’INSTALL' instructions in my local directory are a bit esoteric for me considering I am running Android without root, so I have parked them for the time being. I even tried using Bing Copilot,...

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Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:09:07 -0000

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Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:16 -0000

I am using Termux in Android without root, and my understanding of Bash is rather rudimentary, but I would like to help. I noted that the documentation didn't mention the ’git clone' download option, but I used it successfully: ’git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/bashdb/code bashdb-code’. The ’INSTALL' instructions in my local directory are a bit esoteric for me considering I am running Android without root, so I have parked them for the time being. If I can assist in any simple way with this projhect...

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Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:07:16 -0000

I am using Termux in Android, and my understanding of Bash is rather rudimentary, but I would like to help. If I can assist in any simple way to start with, please let me know. I can definitely test the new version to see if they work on Android and I can assist with updating documentation. I note the comments that a person recently updated the install script to represent their system's version of Bash, and they said that after doing this, the install script worked on their system. I am running Bash...

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Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:05:18 -0000

Jokerwild posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Jokerwild — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:20:08 -0000

My understanding of Bash is rather rudimentary, but I would like to help. If I can assist in any simple way to start with, please let me know.

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:05:29 -0000

Starting next week my time will finally free up. for open-source things. The top priority will be whatever is needed for bashdb and zshdb.

Joachim Ansorg posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:28:36 -0000

@rockyb Thanks! I've submitted most of the commits as merge requests. There's one against 4.4 and one against 5.1 where applicable. I've kept most PRs to just one commit to help with the review.

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #24 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:26:31 -0000

4.4: Fix pollution by global variables

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #23 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:22:07 -0000

5.1: Fix pollution with global variables

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #22 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:08:43 -0000

5.1: Fix gitignore for logging test

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #21 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:06:46 -0000

4.4: Fix test-settrace

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #20 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:05:58 -0000

5.1: Fix test-settrace

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #19 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:01:43 -0000

4.4: Fix tests with pygmentize

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #18 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:59:04 -0000

Fix tests with pygmentize

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #17 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:46:48 -0000

4.4: Rewrite "info variables -p"

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #16 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:43:02 -0000

5.1: Rewrite "info variables -p"

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #15 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:33:43 -0000

4.4: Fix step command

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #14 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:33:11 -0000

5.1: Fix step command

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #13 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:28:14 -0000

4.4: Fix highlighting on macOS

Joachim Ansorg created merge request #12 on Code

Joachim Ansorg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 10:23:57 -0000

5.1: Fix highlighting on macOS

Rocky Bernstein modified a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:28:56 -0000

Yes, please submit these, to the extent we can, I would prefer the code bases to be as close as possible. As for the changes due pygments changing things from time to type, my view is that this is fragility in testing . Testing should be done without pygmentizing output. There should be tests just to see that pygments does something, but that test needs to be crafted more carefully so that it does not rely too heavily on specific kinds of formatting that is likely to change. For example it might...

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Rocky Bernstein — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:28:24 -0000

Yes, please submit these, to the extent we can, I would prefer the code bases to be as close as possible. As for the changes due pygments changing things from time to type, my view is that this is fragility in testing . Testing should be done without pygmentizing output. There should be tests just to see that pygments does something, but that test needs to be crafted more careful so that it does not rely too heavily on specific kinds of formatting that is likely to change. For example it might detect...

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Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 22:22:47 -0000

Yes, please submit these, to the extent we can, I would prefer the code bases to as close as possible. As for the changes due pygments changing things from time to type, my view is that this is fragility in testing . Testing should be done without pygmentizing output. There should be tests just to see that pygments does something, but that test needs to be crafted more careful so that it does not rely too heavily on specific kinds of formatting that is likely to change. For example it might detect...

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 22:22:08 -0000

Yes, please submit these, to the extend we can I would prefer the code bases to as close as possible. As for the changes due pygments changing things from time to type, my view is that this is fragility in testing . Testing should be done without pygmentizing output. There should be tests just to see that pygments does something, but that test needs to be crafted more careful so that it does not rely too heavily on specific kinds of formatting that is likely to change. For example it might detect...

Joachim Ansorg modified a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Joachim Ansorg — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:59:08 -0000

I've cleaned my commits and made sure that all tests are passing. I had to repair a few, the commits should contain the details. Some failures were related to a new version of pygmentize. I wasn't sure which version is expected to run the tests. Commits to bash-5.1, which may be useful: - https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commit/89f60e890ad7dbc904e61cd8861f74a643162958 - https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commit/d83d7dc913fc66521926cfb3a689c3b9f6708f0a - https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commit/2d25b38290d317161efeb5c080e02184d3f5959d...

Joachim Ansorg posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Joachim Ansorg — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:18:23 -0000

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Joachim Ansorg — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:18:02 -0000

For BashSupport Pro, I have made a few changes to my fork of bashdb which were not yet submitted. https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commits/bashsupport-5.1 for the 5.1 branch and https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commits/bashsupport-4.4 for the 4.4 branch. Commits like https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commit/389ad7668318ed6866d4fde32b820c1e321302dc are most likely only useful for the use in BashSupport. For example, there's https://github.com/BashSupport-Pro/bashdb/commit/f0bda0c2d67515444c2dcda18f7228f000c53d75,...

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:03:39 -0000

Thanks - I will look at the changes this weekend to let you know.

Joachim Ansorg posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Joachim Ansorg — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:57:12 -0000

Rocky Bernstein committed [1f1118] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:45:11 -0000

djust warning to note that version 5.1 is okay

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:44:11 -0000

Actually, I just tried from branch 5.1 and I do not see "This package is only known to work with Bash 5.0". line 106 of configure.ac looks like 5.1 was allowed since 2020-07-29 in commit 6daffb5c. I have just adjusted the error message which reported that only 5.0 was allowed. As for the failures. I do still see two of them,. test-bash-rematch however is not in there, but another one test-bug-loc. Again though these can be ignored.

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:34:36 -0000

Those two tests are very fragile and should be reworked. If you look at the differences it is about how traceback lines are reported and this kind of thing has happened too much in the past. Yes, I believe Bash 5.1 works fine with the existing code. I had meant to get around to adjusting things to basically silence

john glendening posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

john glendening — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:06:20 -0000

Dunno where to report this, but attempted to install bashdb on ubuntu 22.04 with 5.1.16. Running configure exited due to 'This package is only known to work with Bash 5.0' but defeating that did produce a successful result. Running make appeared successful but 'make check' did produce 2 FAILs, for test-bash-rematch & test-bug-loc. Install was successful and works for basic stepping, printing, breakpointing - so far have not had a case where I needed more functionality so that not tested.

Rocky Bernstein committed [b1a7dd] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 23:22:34 -0000

More lint changes

Rocky Bernstein committed [01696e] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:50:11 -0000

Lint Python term-highlight program

Rocky Bernstein committed [d6088c] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:28:37 -0000

Misc shellcode linting

Rocky Bernstein committed [a90dec] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:25:29 -0000

More shellcheck lint stuff

Rocky Bernstein committed [8865b4] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:44:58 -0000

Try ShellCheck for linting

John Bennett created ticket #14

John Bennett — Wed, 17 May 2023 12:46:33 -0000

How to use??

Rocky Bernstein modified ticket #77

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 08 May 2023 12:37:02 -0000

'set logging' not working - w/ patch

ma-ti posted a comment on ticket #77

ma-ti — Mon, 08 May 2023 09:51:17 -0000

Looking good. Thx for the quick turn-around.

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on ticket #77

Rocky Bernstein — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:38:34 -0000

Thanks - this is now applied in the bash-5.1 branch at commit 69de4e2 A small additional change was added to configure.ac ensure the test program gets created. Please double check.

Rocky Bernstein committed [69de4e] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Sun, 07 May 2023 22:36:36 -0000

get set logging working + test

ma-ti posted a comment on ticket #77

ma-ti — Sun, 07 May 2023 20:20:19 -0000

Fix for 2 is actually the following: --- a/lib/msg.sh +++ b/lib/msg.sh @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ function _Dbg_errmsg_no_cr { # print message to output device function _Dbg_msg { if (( _Dbg_logging )) ; then - builtin echo -e "$@" >>$_Dbg_logfid + builtin echo -e "$@" >>$_Dbg_logging_file fi if (( ! _Dbg_logging_redirect )) ; then if [[ -n $_Dbg_tty ]] && [[ $_Dbg_tty != '&1' ]] ; then @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ function _Dbg_msg { # print message to output device without a carriage return at the end function _Dbg_msg_nocr...

ma-ti created ticket #77

ma-ti — Sun, 07 May 2023 20:18:40 -0000

'set logging' not working - w/ patch

Rocky Bernstein committed [c37305] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:38:19 -0000

AC_HELP_STRING -> AS_HELP_STRING

bash debugger released /zshdb/1.1.3/zshdb-1.1.3.tar.gz

bash debugger — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:47:03 -0000

bash debugger released /zshdb/1.1.3/zshdb-1.1.3.tar.bz2

bash debugger — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:47:03 -0000

Rocky Bernstein modified ticket #76

Rocky Bernstein — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:35:49 -0000

/configure[2413]: ${ac_default_prefix/prefix}/bashdb/bashdb-main.inc: bad substitution

roze posted a comment on ticket #76

roze — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:17:45 -0000

You are righht... ./configure --with-dbg-main=bashdb-main.inc successfully ends on AIX 7.1. I'm going to try bashdb in practice. This issue can be closed.

Rocky Bernstein modified a comment on ticket #76

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:04:53 -0000

I just tried building this on AIX 7.1 which is the only thing I have available. In the directory you have the source untarred to, try running bash ./configure --with-dbg-main=bashdb-main.inc. With that, everything built an I was able to run the debugger as well. But let me say, nowadays I don't have that much time and interest in bashdb on AIX 7.1. This is open source code which means you have all of the information available for you or someone else to understand what's wrong and fix.

Rocky Bernstein modified a comment on ticket #76

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:03:41 -0000

I just tried building this on AIX 7.1 which is the only thing I have available. In the directory you have the source untarred to, try running bash ./configure --with-dbg-main=bashdb-main.inc. With that everything built an I was able to run the debugger as well. But let me say, nowadays I don't have that much time and interest in bashdb on AIX 7.1. This is open source code which means you have all of the information available for you or someone else to understand what's wrong and fix.

Rocky Bernstein modified a comment on ticket #76

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:03:24 -0000

I just tried building this on AIX 7.1 which is the only thing I have available. In the directory you have the source untarred to,t ry running bash ./configure --with-dbg-main=bashdb-main.inc. With that everything built an I was able to run the debugger as well. But let me say, nowadays I don't have that much time and interest in bashdb on AIX 7.1. This is open source code which means you have all of the information available for you or someone else to understand what's wrong and fix.

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on ticket #76

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:02:49 -0000

I just tried building this on AIX 7.1 which is the only thing I have available. In the directory you have the source untarred to, ry running bash ./configure --with-dbg-main=bashdb-main.inc. With that everything built an I was able to run the debugger as well. But let me say, nowadays I don't have that much time and interest in bashdb on AIX 7.1. This is open source code which means you have all of the information available for you or someone else to understand what's wrong and fix.

roze created ticket #76

roze — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:56:01 -0000

/configure[2413]: ${ac_default_prefix/prefix}/bashdb/bashdb-main.inc: bad substitution

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Rocky Bernstein — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:02:21 -0000

Is it necessary for bashdb to use identifiers without '_Dbg...' for variables (e.g. the variable 'args' in complete.sh among others)? Never ascribe to maliciousness that which can easily be explained by oversight. Adding _Dbg_ was done pretty late in the game, and the entire code base has not been gone over thoroughly. In commit 890536b I have converted the variable you mention and maybe a couple of other cases as well. Also I never get correct responses for 'x $#' as opposed to 'x $@'. Why? I guess...

Rocky Bernstein committed [890536] on Code

Rocky Bernstein — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:57:42 -0000

Preface more locals with _Dbg_

Lothar Langer posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Lothar Langer — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:36:00 -0000

Is it necessary for bashdb to use identifiers without '_Dbg...' for variables (e.g. the variable 'args' in complete.sh among others)? The use of these identifiers seem to kind of spoil variables with the same name in the debugged bash file. I.e. if I then do 'x args' in a debug session I never get a correct response from bashdb. Also I never get correct responses for 'x $#' as opposed to 'x $@'. Why? -Lothar

xypron created merge request #11

xypron — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:52:00 -0000

configure.ac: add bash 5.2 to supported versions

jumps are op created merge request #10

jumps are op — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:24:43 -0000

Add XDG support to history file

Reuben Thomas created ticket #75

Reuben Thomas — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:54:45 -0000

Typo on web site

retnev created ticket #74

retnev — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:37:19 -0000

bashdbg probably mislinked on github & fail to compile.

retnev modified a comment on discussion Help

retnev — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:35:16 -0000

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retnev — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:32:29 -0000

Using MX21 Linux version 5.15.0-12.2-liquorix-amd64 (stevep@mxlinux.org) (gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2) #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT liquorix 5.15-15~mx21+1 (2022-01-03) I am trying to install bash debugger from source. I read all the readme's and cannot figure out the correct compilation procedure. I did ./configure make make install but the below error about "PIE" keeps creeping up. I tried passing --pie to make but it didnt work either. Searching on the...

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retnev — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:30:49 -0000

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retnev — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 04:45:24 -0000

bash debugger released /remake/4.3+dbg-1.6/README.md

bash debugger — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:08:05 -0000

bash debugger released /remake/4.3+dbg-1.6/remake-4.3+dbg-1.6.tar.gz

bash debugger — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:03:04 -0000

bash debugger released /remake/4.3+dbg-1.6/remake-4.3+dbg-1.6.tar.lz

bash debugger — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:03:04 -0000

Jean-christophe Manciot modified a comment on ticket #67

Jean-christophe Manciot — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 20:59:20 -0000

@DiagonalArg Are you aware that each bashdb version/tag matches a bash version? The first post of this thread was written more than 1 year ago for Ubuntu focal when there was a bashdb tag matching a relevant bash version. Since then, Ubuntu has moved on to impish and so has my PPA which targets only the latest Ubuntu distribution. For the latter, bash version is 5.1.3 and bashdb is not compatible with that release. That's the reasons why you couldn't find any bashdb package on https://git.sdxlive.com/PPA/tree/Ubuntu/pool/stable/b....

DiagonalArg posted a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:40:33 -0000

@jcmanciot - Are you aware that each bashdb version/tag matches a bash version? I did not know that. Thanks for clarifying. Is the sub-version relevant, too? Ubuntu 20.04 is right now on bash version 5.0.17, and I have installed bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0.

Jean-christophe Manciot modified a comment on ticket #67

Jean-christophe Manciot — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:28:26 -0000

@DiagonalArg Regarding your remark about the postinst, it is a leftover from older bashdb versions and it should have been removed. You're right, It prevents a correct installation of bashdb on bullseye. A new release has been posted without the postinst to allow a correct installation. You need to install a compatible bash version first with: # wget https://git.sdxlive.com/DR/plain/Debian/pool/stable/b/bash/bash_5.0-4+11.0_amd64.deb # dpkg -i bash_5.0-4+11.0_amd64.deb # apt-mark hold bash You can...

Jean-christophe Manciot posted a comment on ticket #67

Jean-christophe Manciot — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:19:21 -0000

Regarding your remark about the postinst, it is a leftover from older bashdb versions and it should have been removed. You're right, It prevents a correct installation of bashdb on bullseye. A new release has been posted without the postinst to allow a correct installation. You need to install a compatible bash version first with: # wget https://git.sdxlive.com/DR/plain/Debian/pool/stable/b/bash/bash_5.0-4+11.0_amd64.deb # dpkg -i bash_5.0-4+11.0_amd64.deb # apt-mark hold bash You can grab the new...

Jean-christophe Manciot posted a comment on ticket #67

Jean-christophe Manciot — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:39:32 -0000

@DiagonalArg Are you aware that each bashdb version/tag matches a bash version? The first post of this thread was written more than 1 year ago for Ubuntu focal when there was a bashdb tag matching a relevant bash version. Since then, Ubuntu has moved on to impish and so has my PPA which targets only the latest Ubuntu development distribution. For the latter, bash version is 5.1.3 and bashdb is not compatible with that release. That's the reasons why you couldn't find any bashdb package on https://git.sdxlive.com/PPA/tree/Ubuntu/pool/stable/b....

DiagonalArg posted a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:56:10 -0000

@jcmanicot - I've emailed you directly, but for anyone else ... There is an error in the postinst script in the .deb package in his Debian repos. a ln -sfv /usr/share/bin/bashdb is being created to /bin/bashdb. For one thing, /usr/share/bin/bashdb does not exist. I think this should be /usr/bin/bashdb. Secondly, in Ubuntu, /bin is simlinked to /usr/bin. The effect is to wipe out bashdb altogether. The solution I found was to extract the deb (ar x .deb) and copy usr/bin/bashdb into place.

Rocky Bernstein posted a comment on ticket #67

Rocky Bernstein — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:35:18 -0000

I think what is going on is who is supposed to resolve the full path of the script. I believe if you install bashdb as a command rather than run it as a script to thebash command, then things are fine because the your shell resolves this so that the bashdb program doesn't. As bash is currently distributed, there is no builtin bash function whence or which command. So far as I know, so bashdb would have to do this resolution, and I am not sure I'd want to add that. I suppose it could try running whence...

DiagonalArg modified a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 04:04:04 -0000

@jcmanicot - Thanks for that PPA. Note that the Ubuntu bashdb package is missing, so instead I'll use Bullseye for Ubuntu 20.04. Edit: I was having trouble with your Debian packages when downloading with curl, but then discovered that the links have to be selected in the browser, and then select >> "plain" to download.

DiagonalArg modified a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:49:48 -0000

@jcmanicot - Thanks for that PPA. Note that the Ubuntu bashdb package is missing, so instead I'll use Bullseye for Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I'm having a little trouble with your packages: $ curl -LO "https://git.sdxlive.com/DR/tree/Debian/pool/stable/b/bashdb/bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb" $ dpkg -c ./bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb dpkg-deb: error: './bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb' is not a Debian format archive

DiagonalArg modified a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:48:34 -0000

DiagonalArg modified a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:47:54 -0000

@jcmanicot - Thanks for that PPA. Note that the Ubuntu bashdb package is missing, so instead I'll use Bullseye for Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately, I'm having a little trouble: $ curl -LO "https://git.sdxlive.com/DR/tree/Debian/pool/stable/b/bashdb/bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb" $ dpkg -c ./bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb dpkg-deb: error: './bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb' is not a Debian format archive @gmadrone - have a look here or here. I think the install instructions for the gpg key should...

DiagonalArg modified a comment on ticket #67

DiagonalArg — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 02:23:20 -0000

@jcmanicot - Thanks for that PPA. Note that the Ubuntu bashdb package is missing, so instead I'll use Bullseye for Ubuntu 20.04. I've installed your gpg key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/JC_Manciot_DR.asc and only want to install the bashdb package: $ sudo apt install ./bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Error! E: Invalid archive signature E: Internal error, could not locate member control.tar.{zstlz4gzxzbz2lzma} E: Could not read meta data from /home/dev/Downloads/Software/bashdb_5.0-1.1.12-11.0_amd64.deb...