Lou U wrote on 2011-09-21: > > I am a newbie running cygwin on Windows 7. I want to run an installer > for graphics software, Dislin, viz. > > $./setup.exe > bash: ./setup.exe Permission denied
Windows 7 has something called UAC[1] which forces you to run anything called 'setup.exe' with Administrator privileges. You either need to disable UAC or run the installer from Windows Explorer or a command prompt. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
