When installing CFMX on Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy eft) the installer will exit complaining about missing lib files, something along the lines of:

Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
nawk: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The problem is caused by a directive within the installer file, which triggers somekind of bug that edgy eft has in relation with java (or so i assume). The instruction that causes the problem is:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

The following commands uncomment all occurences of  export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL within the installer, allowing CFMX to be installed on Edgy Eft.

cp coldfusion.bin coldfusion.bin.bak
cat coldfusion.bin.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > coldfusion.bin 

The above commands first make a bakup of the original installer and then uncomments all occurences of the offending command in the original installer.

CFMX can then be installed as per the instructions. (I tested this with CFMX 7 and Scorpio).

cheers

Marcel : http://www.cfavatar.com