Thanks John, but yes, they were already executable.  I played some more and 
made it work by moving the installation files to another directory.  Not sure 
what difference this made yet, unless the fact that the directory I was 
trying to install in originally was in an exported tree caused the problem.

Can anybody fill me in on this?  Original place was in /home/public/so6beta/ 
/home/public is the root of an exported tree.  Have now moved them to 
/usr/so6beta and things work.  As this is to be a server based install I 
thought it made sense to put them in an area already NFS mounted.

Or maybe this has nothing to do with the problem??

thanks again anyway
/Brian

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 12:11 am, you wrote:
> Have you tried checking the permissions on them to see if they are
> executable if not run chmod on them it should be "chmod + x name_of_file"
> if thats not correct man chmod will get you the right syntax.
>
> John Pisini
> http://www.cafecomputer.com
> Registered Linux User #100542
> "No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
>
>
>
> From: Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install problem
> >Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 23:55:53 +1100
> >
> >OK, so I've downloaded all the staroffice beta 6 files (15 bin files plus
> >the
> >pdf) on my slooooow modem connection.  Put them on the server.  Become
> >root.
> >Made them executable.  Tried ./so-6xxxxxxxx000.bin -net and get permission
> >denied.
> >
> >Please don't tell me they are corrupt!!!
> >/Brian
> >
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