Question

So I “installed” SBT by following directions here under the “UNIX” section by downloading the jar and creating the sbt script to run it – however instead of putting it in ~/bin/ I put it in /usr/local/sbt/. I added it to my PATH variable and when I try to run it without sudo I get a Permission denied error (below). Also below is what I see when I type in ls -l in the sbt directory.

$ sbt compile
bash: /usr/local/sbt/sbt: Permission denied

-rwxrwxr--  1 root       wheel      120 Jun 20 09:21 sbt*
-rwxrwxr--@ 1 adelbertc  staff  1096763 Jun 20 09:20 sbt-launch.jar*

Help?

Answer 1

Try changing the permissions so that you can execute it:

sudo chmod o+x /usr/local/sbt/sbt /usr/local/sbt/sbt-launch.jar

Otherwise, you can add yourself to the wheel group, or change the owner so that you own it:

sudo chown adelbertcs:staff /usr/local/sbt/sbt

(assuming that your username is adelbertcs).