On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 04:29 -0700, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
> > -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.
> An easier way, use the remount option: # mount /device/or/mountpoint -o exec,remount Peter > > > 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 > > > > > > > > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to > Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
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