[maemo-users] Installing apps when there's no installer

[From: James Sparenberg]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 11:09:39 Steve Greenland wrote:
> According to Peter Flynn  <peter at silmaril.ie>:
> > > oh and you can't execute a binary from the mmc cards by default either.
> > >  File system mount thing.
> >
> > Ah. But presumably you can
> > $ ln -s /media/disk1/texmf/bin/latex /usr/local/bin/
> > (it certainly worked on the Zaurus).
>
> You can link, but if the card is mounted with the noexec option, it
> doesn't matter. The good news is that a simple
>
> 	mount -o remount,exec /media/mmc1
>
> (as root) should fix it. Automating that I leave as an excercise for the
> reader (translateion: I don't know).
>
> Steve

edit fstab and remove the word noexec.  

James