> -bash: ./MathInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>
> believe that this is because the CD was automounted with the noexec
> option, but I do not know how to fix this. On Debian and SL305, it
> was a case of modifying /etc/fstab, and on SL44 software would
> install from CD right out of the box, but on SL5 there is no
> relevant line in /etc/fstab so presumably some other file needs tweaking.
Sorry for attempting to answer you from a different Linux distro, but it should
be easy to get your Math installed.
You're most definitely right, it's a noexec issue what you see.
As it's not SL4 nor Debian Sarge, you will *not* have in /etc/fstab any CD-ROM
line, but you will have it automatically mounted in GNOME/KDE. If it's not
something SELinux-related, you should be able to fix it easily:
(1) umount the CD and re-mount it manually, with '-o exec' ('defaults' should
include 'exec' too) --or--
(2) skip the umount and force a duplicate remount elsewhere, by mounting it
with the option '--bind' passed to mount.
> SL5 does not include the latest version of R. Which of the R rpms
> at
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/ would be appropriate? There is no
> RHEL5 repository there at the moment. Would any of the fedora
> repositories do?
Sorry again for answering out of a SL5 box, but the only rpms that would have a
chance to work are those for FC6:
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/fc6/
Regards,
R-C
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