I am trying to follow the installation instruction for a piece of software:
cp SOFTWARE-yyyymmdd.linux.tar.gz /usr/local/.
cd /usr/local
gunzip -c SOFTWARE-yyyymmdd.linux.tar.gz > SOFTWARE-yyyymmdd.linux.tar
But when I try to do that, I get the following error:
-bash: SOFTWARE-yyyymmdd.linux.tar: Permission denied
What could be the problem here?
ls -ld . SOFTWARE-yyyymmdd.linux.tar
executed with the same working directory as thegunzip
command?{}
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