Why I am unable to run these scripts?
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at direcway.com
Tue Mar 8 00:47:04 UTC 2005
On 03.07 10:56, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>
> I am unable to run acrobat and java jre installers. When i attempt to
> run './*.bin' or simply './INSTALL', I get the error message 'bad
> interpreter:permission denied.' What does this signify? These are
> authentic files from SUN and ADOBE websites.
To find out what interpreter is being used, try the command
head -1 <your file>
this should give you a result that looks like this:
#! <interpreter>
where "<interpreter>" is the interpreter. It's often /bin/sh. Then try
the command
<interpreter> <your file>
You'll probably get the same error, and
ls -l <inerpreter>
will give you something like this
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 7 16:44 foo
You can try
chmod +x <interpreter>
however, as installer files generally use /bin/sh, and that has execute
permissions (unless your system is seriously broken) it strikes me that
its most likely that 'head -1' will yield garbage, suggesting that your
downloaded files are corrupted.
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