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Try going back to basics: Untar the archive with tar -xzf foo.tar.gz Untar the archive as a regular user, not root. Make sure you're untarring the data onto an ext2 or ext3 partition - msdos/vfat/ntfs partitions won't support all the attributes required. Run ./configure as a regular user. Run make as a regular user. Run make install as root, if that's what is required. See how that works :) J. On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Kelly Jones wrote: > > when i unpack the archive from the command line i get errors from all of the > files in that directory > cannot change ownership to UID 1000, gid 104: Operation not permitted > cannot change mode to rwxr-sr-x: Operation not permitted > > > > > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 19:26, you wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:26:12PM +0000, kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > I still cannot execute the script, same error. > > > > OK, from the top. > > > > What mechanism did you use to to become SuperUser? > > > > Presuming this is a tar you've got this from, remove the untarred > > version and start from scratch. Let's have a transcript (stdout and > > stderr) of what happens here: > > > > uname -a > > id > > set > > df > > mount > > cd <directory with tar in it> > > pwd > > ls -ld . .. > > rm -rf <theolddirectory> # start afresh > > tar zxf thingy.tar.gz # or however you're untarring it > > ls -ld <newdirectory> > > cd <newdirectory> > > ls -l README* INSTALL Imakefile* Makefile* configure > > ../configure > > > > Have I missed anything? > > > > Steve > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > > message body to unsubscribe. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. > -- Jon Still E-mail: jon@xxxxxxxxxxx System Administrator Web: http://www.tertial.org/ tertial.org Tel: +44 (0)7977 066087 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.