DDD and BASHDB

**mkisow** · January 6th, 2008

When I launch ddd from the command line (ddd --bash) I get an error that bash is not found. When I launch ddd --interpreter=/bin/bash <script name> I get the same thing. When I launch ddd --bash -debugger ddd launches without error I receive the hourglass and a message in the lower left that says opening session... in the lower payne I get a bash shell and I can launch bashdb <script name> from there but bashd dosen't behave correctly.

I need to know what I am missing, I would use EMACS, but for someone used to the vi editor EMACS is a little backwards, and I like ddd's interface. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

**dwanders** · October 8th, 2008

Dont suppose you ever located a fix or a reason for this? I seem to be experiencing it as well.

**meonkeys** · January 10th, 2009

I am also unable to use bashdb via DDD in Ubuntu 8.10.

Just found this: http://archivum.info/ddd@gnu.org/2008-10/msg00010.html

**dwanders** · January 10th, 2009

Wow thats my post at DDD =) and you'll notice they never did answer anything. In fact they changed the topic entirely!

I still have not found an answer for this. I would really like to get it working too!

**slavik** · January 10th, 2009

ddd works for scripts?

**dwanders** · January 10th, 2009

Definitely - I am not of the old school (I would not even so much as consider myself a programmer!) but I would be lost without the step debugging provided by most gui IDEs. I really take my hat off to those guys that can keep track of stuff in their heads. Most stuff I do are system scripts with perl and bash. I love DDD with the perl and would get a ton more use out of it if the bash side of it worked! too. It uses a bunch of backend command line debuggers, for all kinds of things besides C or C++ - check it out

**aj_org_nz** · January 28th, 2009

when I use:

ddd --debugger /usr/bin/bashdb <sript-name>

DDD seems to work

**dwanders** · January 28th, 2009

Hey - just tried it again in Ubuntu 8.10 (recently upgraded from LTS) and it seems to be working now just as aj_org_nz said. This is sweet now I can set up JEdit to call DDD directly for debugging bash scripts as well as my perl scripts! thanks to whomever fixed what ever issue it was.