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I know many will think of marking this as duplicate but I have gone through all of the previously answered questions but none are fixing my concern.

I have downloaded some tarball and extracted them using the GUI and when I try to check the Allow executing file as program" on the executable files inside... Properties of the file say -

Type: executable (application/x-executable)

the checkbox gets auomatically unchecked.

Here's a screenshot of File Permissions.

I have given chmod +x on the files too and the drive is ext4 type.

What shall I do to enable the check box?

Thanks in Advance!

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  • After doing chmod +x, can you run the app from the terminal?
    – muru
    Jul 19, 2014 at 4:54
  • No, I get a error message "The program '<program name>' is currently not installed". Jul 19, 2014 at 4:57
  • I mean like this: ./blender or /path/to/blender
    – muru
    Jul 19, 2014 at 5:02
  • You probably downloaded blender for the wrong architecture. Whats the output of file <downloaded_file_u_r_trying_2_execute> ?. Apparently its the blender executable. Why dont you just sudo apt install blender? Jul 19, 2014 at 5:03
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    I was mounting the drive after boot and this was not letting me change permission to rwx. Now I am able to run things as I change the drive to mount on boot. Jul 19, 2014 at 6:26

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Thanks for the help everyone, muru's comment lead me to go verbose mode while doing chmod +x to chmod-v +x. This did change the permission to rwx but when I did a ls -l it was back to rw. I was looking for why chmod was not changing the permission properly and came across - Unable to change permission of the files on mounted partitions in ubuntu 12.04 LTS I was mounting the drive after boot and this was not letting me change permission to rwx.

But the accepted answer in the above link need a tool installed, in ubuntu we can do it using the disks tool too, I did that and rebooted and alls well now.

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