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Ken, debian-devel is for development of the Debian distribution (as the
name would imply). debian-user is for user questions (as yours is).
Please follow-up your question on debian-user.
My solution to your problem: "chmod +x configure".
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:05:22PM -0500, ken picha wrote:
> I have debian running from a very simple installation of the 3.0
> rev1 "woody" disks.
>
> I downloaded and uncompressed the mm distribution on the machine, and I
> am having a problem running "configure". This problem occurs no matter
> what I try to build, and so it is not particular to "mm".
>
> Logged on to the console as root when I execute:
>
> ./configure
>
> I get the following error:
>
>
>
> bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>
>
>
> Of course, configure will run if you execute:
>
> sh configure
>
> but it dies as soon as it tries to fire off a submodule
>
> I have been working with solaris and other UNIX distributions for many
> years, so I should know the answer to this one, but I am getting old
> and can't remember anything anymore
>
> any ideas?
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