In the last message left by liedekef he linked to a file that had some fixes for the installation issue. Zhannes was getting the same error I was getting. But instead of enabling short tags in PHP I just went on and corrected the short tags in the dbem_events.php file. After that the plugin installed without any errors.
The short tags that need to be corrected are on the following lines:
- 1364
- 1387 (2 short tags are on this line)
- 1388
- 1390
- 1587
Hopefully in the next release there will be consistency used when declaring php blocks.