couldn't install rar package in ubuntu ?

[Koh Choon Lin]

>>   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?


Amritpal, can you do a dump of "ls -l" to check the permissions.

 

 
Regards
Koh Choon Lin