> -bash: ./MathInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied


> 
> believe that this is because the CD was automounted with the noexec

> option, but I do not know how to fix this.  On Debian and SL305, it

> was a case of modifying /etc/fstab, and on SL44 software would 
> install from CD right out of the box, but on SL5 there is no 
> relevant line in /etc/fstab so presumably some other file needs tweaking.


Sorry for attempting to answer you from a different Linux distro, but it should be easy to get your Math installed.

You're most definitely right, it's a noexec issue what you see. 

As it's not SL4 nor Debian Sarge, you will *not* have in /etc/fstab any CD-ROM line, but you will have it automatically mounted in GNOME/KDE. If it's not something SELinux-related, you should be able to fix it easily:
(1) umount the CD and re-mount it manually, with '-o exec' ('defaults' should include 'exec' too) --or--
(2) skip the umount and force a duplicate remount elsewhere, by mounting it with the option '--bind' passed to mount.


> SL5 does not include the latest version of R.  Which of the R rpms
> at
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/ would be appropriate?  There is no

> RHEL5 repository there at the moment.  Would any of the fedora

> repositories do?


Sorry again for answering out of a SL5 box, but the only rpms that would have a chance to work are those for FC6: http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/fc6/


Regards,
R-C







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