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Originally Posted by Valloric
1. Marking a binary as executable before trying to execute it is self-explanatory. Besides, the bin file should already be marked as such when you download it.
2. Running the installer with non-root privileges will trigger a warning that you need those privileges to install Sigil (and exit the installer).
So adding either of those instructions would be superfluous.
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Ubuntu Karmic: Changing the Properties to allow Execution did not in fact allow execution.
My point is you needed to use the chmod even to get the sudo error
You may have forgotten that not all users are knowledgeable on the O/S
being used.
It's only 2 lines of text to add to the instructions, that makes for a simple do this:
BTW the Sigil shortcut on MY desktop was owned by root
