Execution error--Permission denied

I'm new to Ubuntu OS (have installed 14.04.2) I was trying to install Oracle software, and I got the "Permission denied" error. And I have already changed the permission of the file using "chmod 777" I also tried as root user, but even that was in vain.

oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~$ pwd /home/oracle oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~$ ls -ltr total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Videos drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Templates drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Public drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Downloads drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:57 Documents drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 17:59 Desktop oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~$ cd Desktop oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop$ ls -ltr total 4 drwxrwxrwx 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 17 12:42 linux_11gR2_database oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop$ cd linux_11gR2_database oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database$ ls -ltr total 4 drwxrwxrwx 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:32 database oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database$ cd database oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database$ ls -ltr total 40 -rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 4352 Aug 13 2009 runInstaller -rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 5400 Aug 17 2009 welcome.html drwxrwxrwx 12 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:29 doc drwxrwxrwx 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:30 install drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:30 response drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:30 rpm drwxrwxrwx 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:30 sshsetup drwxrwxrwx 14 oracle oinstall 4096 Apr 12 17:32 stage oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database$ sh runInstaller runInstaller: 137: runInstaller: /home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database/install/.oui: Permission denied oracle@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:~/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database$ sudo su root [sudo] password for oracle: root@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:/home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database# sh runInstaller runInstaller: 137: runInstaller: /home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database/install/.oui: Permission denied root@sysadmin-Lenovo-B460e:/home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database# 

Any suggestion/help would be much helpful to me.

Thanks a lot..

1 Answer

You need to check permissions of .oui file located at /home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database/install/.oui. Please give read,write, execution permissions to it.

chmod 777 -R /home/oracle/Desktop/linux_11gR2_database/database/ 

Please check permission of oraInst.loc located at /etc/oraInst.loc Permissions should be

-rw-r--r-- root root /etc/oraInst.loc 

Set this permission by executed as a root user

chmod 755 oraInst.loc