hi sir,
i am installing ns2.34 in fedora14 in vmware
but i got the following error
bash: ./install: Permission denied
plz help me out from this……
i need your help,waiting for your reply…….
thanks in advance….
Nisar Ahmad

Hi,

The error says it all: permission denied! Are you running that as a regular user? If so, try using sudo. For help on sudo type:
And by the way, Fedora 14 has been unsupported for over a year now. If you want to keep running Fedora I suggest you upgrade to the latest release if you have no specific reason to stay with Fedora 14 which will not receive updates any more.

Kind regards,

Eric

Welcome to LQ.
May be you unpacked the tarball ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz as root ?
Which is wrong.
No ns2 commands are meant to be run as root (or with sudo).

Suggest : Delete ns-allinone-2.34/, and start from scratch :
If one shell script has wrong permissions or isn't executable,
there can be a lot more corrupt files.

P.S. : The install command ..
cd ns-allinone-2.34/ && export CC=gcc34 CXX=g++34 && sh install


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I am not 100% sure that fedora 14 had "sudo" even installed
Even fedora 18 dose not configure it , nor use it ( by default )

"su" and "su -" are normally used to become root .

nisar083 unless you must , 100% MUST use fedora 14
save your self a LOT of problems ans hassles
you are going to have problems installing programs on an unsupported version of fedora

so please install fedora 18

Hi,

I guess that depends on what ISO you use, if there is a difference in that matter between them. It doesn't make any sense to not have sudo installed and configured if the first thing when creating a first user is to add it to the administrator group. I've only been using Fedora for a year, used Debian before but as far as I remember I never had to install / configure sudo. Since you made me doubt I just did a clean install in a VirtualBox machine with the Fedora 18 LiveCD (the first option you encounter when you go to get.fedora.org and after the 'Install to Hard disk' finished when rebooted I had to create my user, added it to the administrator group which makes sense since the use of root account for daily work is not advised. After that I could just use sudo to execute commands that need root privileges. Maybe you were right about Fedora 14, but at least in 17 and 18, at least for the ISOs I use(d), sudo does come installed and configured (if you include your user in the administrator group). if you don't include a user in the administrator group when creating and he tries to use sudo an error will be given that the user is not in the sudoers list.

Kind regards,

Eric