When I run the command ./configure in Ubuntu for installation of the siesta-3.2 software, bash complains with this: ./configure: Permission denied. How can I resolve this issue?
3 Answers
Try making ./configure executable.
In a terminal, cd into the directory where ./configure is (cd /path/to/configure/containing/folder), then run chmod +x configure, then try run ./configure as you were before.
There are many possibilities for this error:
- This happens because you are trying to install from other drives. Copy the content in the home directory then try installing using ./configure. Also change the permission using
chmod +x configure - Or you are trying to run the command on a mounted partition that had the "noexec" flag on.
It worked when I ran the following command on Ubuntu 16.04:
sh ./configure
