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Re: LINUX IDL Install Help [message #49428 is a reply to message #49427]

Fri, 21 July 2006 09:31

Foldy Lajos
Messages: 268
Registered: October 2001

Senior Member

Hi,

if you mount the CDROM by clicking on an icon, this usually uses the
noexec flag for mount (so normal users get only restricted permission).
Try to mount manually (as root):

mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt
./xinstall.sh or /bin/sh xinstall.sh

(check before if /mnt exists, and /dev/cdrom points to your actual CDROM
device).

regards,
lajos

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, David Fanning wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm in Africa, far away from books and other support. You are all I've
> got! :-(
>
> I'm trying to install IDL 6.1 on a LINUX machine. The instructions call
> for this
> command:
>
> /bin/sh /CDROM_PATH/xinstall.sh
>
> We have logged on as root. We have correctly identified our CDROM_PATH
> as /media/cdrom. But when we execute the command, we find we don't have
> permission to do the install. (Sorry I can't be more specific. The
> responses
> are in French and ... well, let's just say this is not my first
> language.)
>
> Any ideas? (I prefer simple words that I can get across to my companion
> by
> waving my hands, if possible.)
>
> Thanks ever so much. I don't know what I would do without you folks!
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>

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		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: cgguido on Mon, 24 July 2006 11:41
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: swingnut on Sun, 23 July 2006 16:11
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: JD Smith on Fri, 21 July 2006 11:46
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: JD Smith on Fri, 21 July 2006 11:44
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: David Fanning on Fri, 21 July 2006 10:28
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 21 July 2006 09:32
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: Foldy Lajos on Fri, 21 July 2006 09:31
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: David Fanning on Fri, 21 July 2006 09:20
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: Jean H. on Fri, 21 July 2006 09:01
		Re: LINUX IDL Install Help By: Jo Klein on Fri, 21 July 2006 08:53

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