you were right!! :-) I went into permissions for the folder, and it was not set to executing as a program. At first it wouldn't allow me to change it, but when I opened nautilus using gksudo then it allowed me to change it, and then the spellchecker installed perfectly. Thank you :-) swarup
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 15:41 +0530, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan wrote: > Your permissions for the directory might not be right. In either case, > you can try sudo for configure. > > > On Jan 7, 2012 4:42 AM, "Swarup" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have been using my Hindi aspell spellchecker for years in several > > laptops and netbooks using Ubuntu. I have just attempted to set it > up in > > another new netbook and when trying to do the "./configure" step, to > my > > surprise I receive the following error: > > > > > > atma@atma-N150P-N210P-N220P:~/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ ./configure > > bash: ./configure: Permission denied > > atma@atma-N150P-N210P-N220P:~/aspell6-hi-0.02-0$ > > > > > > What could this be due to, or how to approach the solution to this? > This > > has never happened to me before when I was doing this install. > "sudo" > > has never been required for this before, so I did not use it. "sudo" > is > > only needed for the final step, right-- "sudo make install". But > here I > > am being refused permission for the very first step. > > > > Thanks, > > Swarup > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-in mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
