Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] Install error permission denied

[<lu...@lu...>]

On Thursday, 2002-12-26 at 14:03:34 -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote:
> I am using fwbuilder on a debian system with Gnome. Everything seemed to 
> work well untill I tried to install. At that point I got:
>    Executing '/home/gary -f /home/gary/fwrules.xml -d /home/gary debian'
>    Exec error (/home/gary/) Permissing denied

Hmm. I wouldn't expect your home dir to make a good executable, either
;-)

> I suspect  a security problem but haven't found a work around. Being new 
> with Gnome, I haven't found how to start it in su mode. I have tried to 
> change permissions several different ways (to root) with no luck. HELP.

I'm wondering why you aren't using the Debian packages Jeremy T. Bouse
made. In case you missed that mail, use these /etc/apt/sources.list
lines:

deb http://people.debian.org/~jbouse/updates/ stable/i386/
deb http://people.debian.org/~jbouse/updates/ unstable/i386/

HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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