Re: Permission denied

[Kees de Leeuw]

Hi Ben,

I get the following results:

Kees-Imac:~ kees$ ls -l /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

-rwxrwxrwx  1 kees  admin  2968 21 Apr  2011 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave

Kees-Imac:~ kees$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/octave

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 20 Mar 11:49 /usr/local/bin/octave

I do not know a lot about Unix, but it is now clear to me that I do not have an 
executable file in /usr/local/bin. How can I fix this?

Thanks and regards,
Kees

On 21/03/2012, at 12:37 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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
>