Quote from: jefferson7 on August 20, 2017, 10:15:09 PM

After unzipping electrum-2.8.3.tar.gz to a folder, i moved into that forlder in terminal and ran:
./electrum

and i get the error:
./electrum: Permission denied error

I searched and found a suggestion to change permissions on the electrum.py file to make it executable. So I tried that and it seems to have worked, Electrum Wallet has opened. But I just wanted to check if that sounds right to everyone? Would the Electrum package have to have the permissions updated right after unzipping to make it work or am i missing something? That doesn't seem right that it wouldn't already have the correct perms 'out of the box'?

Do the tar.gz files have to be complied? Not sure if this is going in the right direction?

Thanks!

Yeah, that all sounds fine. You have to set the binary to be executable or you won't be able to execute it with ./electrum . You can always use python electrum to manually load it with python without the need to set it executable.

tar.gz files are simply archived files similar to a ZIP file and they don't have to be compiled.