Greetings, Thrall, Bryan! >> 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 Another option is to simple rename "setup.exe" to say, "cygwin.exe". -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 22.09.2011, <18:47> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
