New Linux Installation Question

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Hello Colin;

He has ignored the request for the command line which caused the error.
It is becoming clear that he is confused about permissions under Linux.

When he provides the command line further help may be rendered until then
it is a waste of time.


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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



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