Linux install script problem

feriso · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:04

Trying to install a prog on linux from a cd using the supplied script but is not letting me, keeps coming up with

"sudo: unable to execute ./INST_RLS: Permission denied"

thought beforehand I thought it was becasue I was not running as root and I was getting this

"bash: ./INST_RLS: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied"

I'm no linux guru so I'm stumped....

(its a old prog from about 1999 but that shouldn't make a difference shoudl it?)

Una · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:20

You sure the executable flag is set correctly?

chmod u+x INST_RLS

feriso · 7 Feb 2007 at 09:54

Ah good point - have no idea and I'll check when I get home. However it is on a mounted CD so I don't think you can change the permissions as it'll be read only - is it worth copying the CD locally and trying to install from the local drive?

edit: I'musing ubuntu 6.[3?] (I think) and checking the read only files it says that the linux version was compiled for Redhat (5.3 ?) - shouldn't make a differance should it.

Una · 7 Feb 2007 at 10:08

Depends how it is linked (statically or dynamically linked) and a few other things. Usually if its for the same architecture it should work. But your having problems with the script? (Is that not just a bash script - not binary) Redhat will have different paths from Ubuntu so that may cause problems but the error you show does not look like that.

Also you may wish to try sh SCRIPTNAME instead of ./SCRIPTNAME if its on read only media.