How do you install an sh program? -- follow-up

[Benjamin Sher]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> I assure you that the Readme.txt file for XnView does NOT have any 
>> installation instructions. That would be the first place I would check.
>
>
> Just run the "install" script (as root).
>
> # ./install
>
> Paul.
>
Dear Paul:

That's precisely what I tried to do originally, but to no avail. What 
does this error message mean, please?

Benjamin

[sher at localhost XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static]$ su
Password:
[root at localhost XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static]# ls
app-defaults  Formats.txt  lib  nconvert.sh  Usage.txt     xnview.sh
bin           install      man  ReadMe.txt   WhatsNew.txt
[root at localhost XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static]# ./install
  OS  : Linux, version 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL
./install: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./install: line 26: `   uid=*(root)*)'
[root at localhost XnView-1.68-x86-unknown-linux2.x-static]#