Permission Denied????

ddrfreak · 12-11-2004, 12:33 AM

I know I have been a pain with all my questions. But im pretty sure this is the last one. When I go into the terminal to install a program this is what i type/it says

[administrator@MTS administrator]$ su
Password:
[root@MTS administrator]# ./apollo-KDE-1.4-1-RH7x-Qt2x.i386.rpm
bash: ./apollo-KDE-1.4-1-RH7x-Qt2x.i386.rpm: Permission denied
[root@MTS administrator]#

I also tried entering cd /home/administrator before that

What do i do???
What won't it work???
And why does it saaay permission denied???

veritas · 12-11-2004, 12:40 AM

You are getting permission denied because the file doesn't have execute permissions. You can fix it with

Code:

chmod a+x apollo-KDE-1.4-1-RH7x-Qt2x.i386.rpm

But since its an rpm file, you aren't supposed to ./ it. Try the 'rpm' command.

opjose · 12-11-2004, 07:09 AM

Actually you are trying to install (incorrectly as veritas stated... nice moniker veritas... "the truth"...) a Red Hat RPM on a Mandrake system.

This is a no-no.

Follow the dirctions on my sig to set up your urpmi sources as indicated.

DO IT NOW!

Then

urpmi apollo