Hi, this might be a silly question to put but still here's the problem. I've downloaded some packages from a mirror while using Window$ and saved them on my NTFS partition, when i booted linux and did a ls on the dir containing the packages (/mnt/win_d/packages) first thing that took my eyes was that they are all executable (green color) maybe other permissions changed too but i'm not sure. Now my question is, does this affect the packages in any way when i install them, is there any way the files inside the archive changed their permissions too and cause problems ? Is it ok to do installpkg /mnt/win_d/packages/package-name.tgz or should i copy them first on my linux partition and maybe even change their permission ? If yes, what permissions should i apply to them and how - chmod ??? ( -R maybe? ) package - ? thank you.

The filesystem won't alter the permissions inside an archive.

You don't need to do anything unless the person who made the package did a shoddy job. So it's ok to "installpkg" from an NTFS partition. I extract and install packages from an NTFS partition all the time.

If you don't want anything on a NTFS partition to be executable you should add "noexec" in fstab for the partition.

Ok, thanks. As for the packages beeing silly done, don't think so , they are downloaded from an official mirror, and they are slack base packages, made by Patrick himself, so no worry 'bout that then .