Linux - local user installation doesnt work

[Blue Mango]

Hello Group,

I'm on AlmaLinux (RHEL) 8.7 with high/enhanced security settings.

I tried to install the coapp 1.6.3 as local user without root privileges and got the feedback "bash: .: net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64: Can't execute file" after executing 'net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 install --user'

Execution rights are set correctly:

-rwxrwxr-x. 1 myusername myusername 48M 25. Mai 2021  net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64

What could be the reason for this?

Thanks

Blue Mango

[mig]

Could you just execute the net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 binary and report the exact error message you get ?

[Blue Mango]

./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 install --user

bash: ./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64: Keine Berechtigung (No permission)

bash ./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 install --user
./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64: ./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64: Kann die Datei nicht ausführen. (Can't execute file)

[mig]

The "no permission" error message looks like your user doesn't have the rights to execute the binary file. However, in your initial post, the execution rights (the 'x' bits) are set for all users. Maybe you are running some sort or security layer on top of your linux system, like SSELinux.

Anyway, you will probably get better help from AlmaLinux users forums than here, as the problem is clearly no VDH related.

[Blue Mango]

I just found out, what the cause is: The home partition is mounted as noexec, which obviously means that no file can be executed at this partition.

[mig]

Kudos for finding out and thanks for reporting the result of your investigation.