Permission Denied for INSTALL-BINARY

Mark Sargent powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Wed Feb 9 05:46:15 UTC 2005


Jonathan Berry wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:04:33 +0900, Mark Sargent
><powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>using Fedora2 and trying to install from a .tar file. Extracted to this
>>dir, mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686 where I see the
>>INSTALL-BINARY file. Using this cmd, ./INSTALL-BINARY gives the
>>following error,
>>
>>[root at localhost mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686]# ./INSTALL-BINARY
>>-bash: ./INSTALL-BINARY: Permission denied
>>
>>What am I doing wrong here.? I'm rather new to Linux too. Cheers.
>>
>>Mark Sargent.
>>    
>>
>
>This is probably because the file is not executable.  In Linux, only
>files so marked can be executed.  You can use the command "chmod" to
>change the permissions on a file.  Use "chmod +x INSTALL-BINARY" to
>make the file executable and then you should be able to run it with ./
> If this is a shell script, you can also run it with "sh
>INSTALL-BINARY" without making it executable.  You can use the "file"
>command to see what it is, ie "file INSTALL-BINARY" should tell you
>something like "Bourne shell script text executable" if it is a shell
>script.
>I found this link real quick with Google that talks some more about
>file permissions:
>http://www.linuxpowered.com/html/editorials/file.html  Also check out
>"man chmod" and "man chown"
>Now, is there a reason you are installing from a tar ball?  You ought
>to be able to find an equivalent rpm file to install.  Looks like
>there are generic rpms at www.mysql.com as well as src.rpms.  I
>recommend trying the rpm and if that doesn't work, then try rebuilding
>the src.rpm.  You get better consistency (Fedora will know that mysql
>4.1.9 is installed) and is a good opportunity to learn some more about
>Linux :).
>
>Jonathan
>
>  
>
Hi All,

tyhanx Jonathan. Found the relevant help stuff in the manual for other 
unix like installs. Followed to a t and all is well. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.




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