This hit me too. It is because of either a bash-ism in the install script, or a deficiency in dash (the shell currently acting as /bin/sh). The work around, then, is to replace /bin/sh with a link to bash and try the install again. If dash has installed itself as /bin/sh, this is as easy as 'dpkg-reconfigure dash'.
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