couldn't install rar package in ubuntu ?

[Nils Kassube]

amritpal pathak wrote:
> yes config file is there check out following.
> 
>  amrit at ubuntu:~/kannel/sqlbox$ ls
> acinclude.m4  bootstrap     COPYING  INSTALL        NEWS           
> UPGRADE aclocal.m4    ChangeLog     doc      KannelLICENSE  README
> AUTHORS       configure     example  Makefile.am    rpm
> autotools     configure.in  gw       Makefile.in    sb-config.h.in
> amrit at ubuntu:~/kannel/sqlbox$ ./configure
> bash: ./configure: Permission denied
> amrit at ubuntu:~/kannel/sqlbox$ sudo ./configure
> [sudo] password for amrit:

It looks like the configure file isn't executable. IMHO it is very 
unusual that a Linux source package is distributed as rar archive. Could 
it be that rar archives don't know Linux permissions?


Nils