[SOLVED] Ubuntu: installer not working, Xbian hangs

[beach]

Dear Forum, my 1st post.

Just bought the latest Rpi v2 B with an 8Gb SD card. This is my 2nd raspberry, I also have a version A (The very first batch I think). Some background: I am an advanced linux user.

Being familiar with raspbian I first installed that to verify that eveything is working. And it is.

Then I downloaded the latest Xbian image AND installer from this website. Now the troubles begin:

I unzip the installer, chmod it (although it was already executable) and ran it with

sudo ./XBian-installer
It then replies:

Terminal

./XBian-installer: 5: ./XBian-installer: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

Googled it but did not find a solution.

Well I thought it is linux so a dd command should work too. I unpacked the image file and dd it to my SD card (with option bs=32M).
I see a /boot directory and others so that should have worked.

I then inserted it in the Rpi, and started it. It hangs with the Xbian logo and the word: Creating
After 15 mins (was that enough time) I unplugged the Rpi and started it up again. Now it hangs in the same logo but with the word ´fs´ (probably FileSystem?)

I run ubuntu 14.04 32bit system

My Questions:
1 What could be the problem with the installer?
2 Does a simple dd command suffice? What is the installer actually doing?
3 Pls help