Comments on: Screencast on how to install DB2 Express-C on Mac OS X

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:26:26 +0000

Interesting. db2setup should have kept the a+x settings as before.

Could you run ls -l in that directory and post the output via http://gist.github.com here?

Thanks in advance,
Antonio

By: Anatole

Anatole — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:23:02 +0000

Hi Antonio,
I am getting the following message:
-sh: ./db2setup: Permission denied

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:30:23 +0000

Hi Anatole,

try the following (change anatole to your regular user’s name):

sudo chown -R anatole /var/root/downloaddirector/exp
cd /var/root/downloaddirector/exp
./db2setup

By: Anatole

Anatole — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:41:26 +0000

Antonio,
Thank you for the quick response.
I’ve tried it and now I am getting the following message:

./db2setup: line 220: /var/root/downloaddirector/exp/db2/macos/bin/db2prereqcheck: Permission denied
./db2setup: line 101: /var/root/downloaddirector/exp/db2/macos/install/../bin/db2usrinf: Permission denied

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:06:26 +0000

Anatole, try the following:

chmod a+x ./db2setup
./db2setup

By: Anatole

Anatole — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:57:28 +0000

Antonio,
Thank you for the great screencast.
Unfortunately, I cannot install DB2.
I am getting the following message:-bash: ./db2setup: Permission denied
on 2 macs one is Mac OS X 10.7.3, the other is MAC OS X 10.6.8
Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
Thanks

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