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Re: Permission denied
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Permission denied |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:37:30 -0400 |
On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Kees de Leeuw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very new to Octave. I have just installed it on Mac OS X 10.7.3. I think
> I have followed all the installation instructions. I can run Octave from the
> icon in my Application folder, but I cannot run it from the terminal. I
> followed the instructions given in
> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle. When I
> enter 'Octave', I get a message '-bash: /usr/local/bin/octave: Permission
> denied'.
>
> I would appreciate some help. I believe I need to have this working as I am
> involved in software which is using Octave in the background.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Kees
This error may occur if the symbolic link you created doesn't point to an
executable file.
What do the following return form the terminal ?
ls -l /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
ls -l /usr/local/bin/octave
Ben