[NBLUG/talk] bashed

[Scott Doty]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:32:45AM -0700, Cal Herrmann wrote:
> I am trying to install Word Perfect, from Corel, I had bought the disks 
> several years ago, installed on another machine for a while.
> It installs on Mandrake 8.2, but requires some patches.
> I had originally installed on the Corel (Debian) OS, worked fine, 
> but won't install now on a Corel OS disk.  This is an old Linux, but that 
> doesn't make any difference for this machine. 
> The instruction is go to the cdrom as root, type ./setup.
> "bash: ./setup: permission denied."
> I have looked at man bash, without understanding how it might have been set.
> Any ideas?  Thanks, Cal

Sounds like execute permissions aren't set right on the setup script.  Try
typing "bash setup".

 -Scott