Re: [LUG] Re: Cannot ./configure permission denied

[Kelly Jones <kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

when i unpack the archive from the command line i get errors from all of the 
files in that directory
cannot change ownership to UID 1000, gid 104: Operation not permitted
cannot change mode to rwxr-sr-x: Operation not permitted 




On Wednesday 28 November 2001 19:26, you wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:26:12PM +0000, kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
> > I still cannot execute the script, same error.
>
> OK, from the top.
>
> What mechanism did you use to to become SuperUser?
>
> Presuming this is a tar you've got this from, remove the untarred
> version and start from scratch. Let's have a transcript (stdout and
> stderr) of what happens here:
>
> uname -a
> id
> set
> df
> mount
> cd <directory with tar in it>
> pwd
> ls -ld . ..
> rm -rf <theolddirectory> # start afresh
> tar zxf thingy.tar.gz # or however you're untarring it
> ls -ld <newdirectory>
> cd <newdirectory>
> ls -l README* INSTALL Imakefile* Makefile* configure
> ../configure
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> Steve
>
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