topic Installing on Linux - initdb: permission denied in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-on-linux-initdb-permission-denied/m-p/276251#M229381 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is a very basic problem I'm running into here. I'm trying to install 4.0.1 EE on Red Hat. Installing via terminal, everything goes well until about half way through the install process I get the following error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />Error: There has been an error.<BR />bash: /home/alfresco/alfresco-4.0.1/postgresql/bin/initdb: Permission denied<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Done a bit of googling on it but I can't find any solutions to this, anyone else have an idea?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm doing the install as the root user, gave total permissions to the installer (alfresco-enterprise-4.0.1-installer-linux-x64.bin) and total permissions on the folder I was installing Alfresco to /home/alfresco/alfresco-4.0.1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help here would be great.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ben.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:57:19 GMT bengrah 2013-02-08T10:57:19Z Installing on Linux - initdb: permission denied https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-on-linux-initdb-permission-denied/m-p/276251#M229381 Hi all,This is a very basic problem I'm running into here. I'm trying to install 4.0.1 EE on Red Hat. Installing via terminal, everything goes well until about half way through the install process I get the following error:Error: There has been an error.bash: /home/alfresco/alfresco-4.0.1/postgresql Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:57:19 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-on-linux-initdb-permission-denied/m-p/276251#M229381 bengrah 2013-02-08T10:57:19Z Re: Installing on Linux - initdb: permission denied https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-on-linux-initdb-permission-denied/m-p/276252#M229382 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you installing as Root, sudo root or as regular user?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I believe you have to run the install script as root or with sudo, or you wont have the PostgresSQL privileges.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(1) Download the install file</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(2) chmod it to execute, &gt;chnmod +x alrescoxxx.bin</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(3) &gt; sudo su - (and login)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(4) Change dirs to alfresco bin folder</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(5) ./alfrescoxxx.bin</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ALSO - Make sure you dont have Postgres already installed, you dont want any conflicts.</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:55:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/installing-on-linux-initdb-permission-denied/m-p/276252#M229382 mikehchase 2013-02-12T22:55:10Z