Hello Marcio

this is a bug of the Composer-specific part of Intel Parallel Studio XE installer and related to the 'dash' shell being used on Ubuntu and Debian. This is fixed in update 1 of Intel Composer 2013 which will be released very soon (very likely this week). It has been reported on this forum multiple times. See for example http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/328146
As soon as update update 1 will be avaialble, I will let you know.

In case you don't want to wait, here the steps to workaround the issue:

Temporarily switch to bash shell:

$ sudo rm /bin/sh
$ sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Uninstall the Composer package:

$ sudo /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.0.079/bin/uninstall.sh

You might get an error message "Package has been installed by another user. Press enter to exit";
In this case remove the installation directory:

$ sudo rm -rf /opt/intel/composer_xe_2013.0.079/

You very likely have a corrupted RPM-date base file /root/.rpmdb. The installation will not work without removing this file. Thus

$ sudo –s
# mv /root/.rpmdb /root/.rpmdb.backup
# exit

Now Install Composer XE 2013 in the usual way

$ sudo rm /bin/sh
$ sudo ln -s /bin/dash /bin/sh

Once update 1 of Composer 2013 will be available, you can install it (additionally in case you like) in the usual way - no need for the workarounds above.

Heinz