Re: Menu5 Install Error

In article <Cu7wMy.2Gs_at_ugc.ab.ca> geoff_at_ugc.ab.ca (Geoff Coleman) writes:
>In article <94216.100600RCAMPBEL_at_esrin.bitnet>, <RCAMPBEL_at_ESRIN.BITNET> wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>When installing Menu5 as part of oracle 7.0.16.4 under solaris 2.3 , I receive
>>the following error message .
>>menus.ins(449): FILE_NOT_FOUND while copying %src%lib/fortran/proforxt.mk (perm
>>ission denied).
>>
>>Anyone seen this before or got any idea whats causing it ?
>>Any help will be appreciated
>>Richard
>
>Yes !!!!
> This is a known problem with this distribution. The persmission on
>one of the files (the above mentioned one) on the CD is such that it is not
>world readble. You need to ask Oracle for the official way around this problem
>or just hand install it. (The official way aroud is to figure out what group
>can read it and change to that group on the install :-) ).
>
> Don't you love companies that know there is a problem with the
>distribution but ship it anyways.
>
>
>Geoff Coleman
>

The group id is 643. So all you need to do is to create a group id using 643, then adding this group to your oracle userid. Hope this will help you!

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