New Linux Installation Question

[Colin Law]

On 9 February 2015 at 21:39, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 02/09/2015 09:04 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> 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