Simics 2.2 conflict with Ubuntu 7.04 and On

Simics 2.2 conflict with Ubuntu 7.04 and On because Ubuntu uses dash rather bash. Here is the solution:
checking installation prefix of compiler... configure: error: Don't know how to run 'type' on this host.

To check do ls -l /bin/sh. If it links to dash, you can replace it with a link to bash: ln -sf bash /bin/sh. Note that root privileges are required.