On 9 February 2015 at 21:39, Budge <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi and thanks for the advice. I had understood however that >>> >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions. I could of course >>> change ownership but why have I not had this issue before? >> That says that the owner has write permission. But who is the owner? >> ls -l /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer >> will tell you. >> >> Most likely the owner is root, as you probably used sudo to put the file >> there. >> >> Colin >> >> > Hi Colin, > Yes root is the owner. File is in /usr/local/bin. What is best/correct > approach, to give everyone permission, change it temporarily or change > ownership?
You should not give everyone permission to it. Someone asked earlier what command you were running that gave this error. It should only happen if get-iplayer is attempting an update. In fact it is not a good idea to install manually into that folder anyway. If you were to install get-iplayer from the repository it would overwrite it. It would be more usual to manually install to /usr/local/bin, though that wil not affect the permissions issue. Colin _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
