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Re: Permission denied but have permission
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".
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.09.2011, <18:47>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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