Why I am unable to run these scripts?

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 03.07 10:56, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> 
> I am unable to run acrobat and java jre installers. When i attempt to  
> run './*.bin' or simply './INSTALL', I get the error message 'bad  
> interpreter:permission denied.' What does this signify? These are  
> authentic files from SUN and ADOBE websites.

To find out what interpreter is being used, try the command
	head -1 <your file>
this should give you a result that looks like this:
	#! <interpreter>
where "<interpreter>" is the interpreter. It's often /bin/sh.  Then try  
the command
	<interpreter> <your file>
You'll probably get the same error, and
	ls -l <inerpreter>
will give you something like this
	-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Mar  7 16:44 foo
You can try
	chmod +x <interpreter>
however, as installer files generally use /bin/sh, and that has execute  
permissions (unless your system is seriously broken) it strikes me that  
its most likely that 'head -1' will yield garbage, suggesting that your  
downloaded files are corrupted.