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I downloaded Android Development Tool for linux (ADT) and placed it in home directory. After unzipping the files, when I double click the "eclipse" executable file; the eclipse works perfectly fine.

But If I unzip the ADT in a different directory, in my case directory E: (is shown when I boot in windows 7) There double clicking the same "eclipse" executable file does not run eclipse. It shows error message:

Could not display /media/Software/00.AndroidLinux/ADT/eclipse/eclipse. There is no application installed for executable files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?

If I press yes in the Dialog, it finds "Pypar2" which is not my solution.

I found that the "eclipse" file permission is following 

-rw------- 1 tanvir tanvir 63050 Feb  4 19:05 eclipse

I tried to change the permission by "chmod +x eclipse" , but no use. This command does not change the file permission at all in this case.

what should I do?

Relevant output of cat /proc/mounts:

/dev/sda6 /media/Software fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

Please not that I'm new to Ubuntu and still learning day by day.

gertvdijk
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dgrgge4
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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! What kind of filesystem are you using on /media/Software? (Please include the output of cat /proc/mounts in your question.) I guess this is a non-Linux filesystem which cannot hold file permission metadata, e.g. FAT32 and NTFS cannot. – gertvdijk Jun 24 '13 at 16:07
  • /media/Software is NTFS file system. – dgrgge4 Jun 24 '13 at 16:07
  • Is /media/Software loaded automatically at boot, or is it a manually-mounted partition? – Thomas Ward Jun 24 '13 at 16:27
  • [/media/Software] is manually-mounted partition @ThomasW. – dgrgge4 Jun 24 '13 at 16:30

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Following worked for me:

First, save the old copy of /etc/fstab to say $HOME/fstab.old

Now run 

$mount

to get the device type (eg, /dev/sda3), look for where the drive is mounted,

Example: 

/dev/sda3 on /some/path type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)

(NOTE: In your case the device type and the directory where it's mounted will be different).

Find the UUID of the disk by running: 

$blkid

On my system this returned: 

/dev/sda3: UUID="90FEDFC7FEDFA3AE" TYPE="ntfs"

Copy/paste the following entry in your /etc/fstab file: (run gksudo gedit /etc/fstab to edit)

UUID=90FEDFC7FEDFA3AE /media/Software ntfs rw,noauto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

(NOTE: WRITE THE UUID OF YOUR DISK. Also provide any path that is convinient to you).

Restart your computer.
Now you should be able to execute any file.

Thomas Ward
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mohit
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  • There's no need to reboot on a manually mounted partition to reactivate the settings. Having said this, you also need to use 'noauto' if you don't want fstab to try and automount the partition at boot. I modified your post accordingly – Thomas Ward Jun 24 '13 at 16:34
  • I suppose then you've to remount the drive (Correct me if I'm wrong). – mohit Jun 24 '13 at 16:36
  • You should unmount the drive first, modify the fstab data, and then remount and it should work with exec permissions. However, you have a lot more options than are needed for basic mounting of an NTFS with exec permissions. I will include my fstab I use for one of my executable NTFS flash drives that ends up mounted at /media/ProgramUSB as an example. That is, when I get home. – Thomas Ward Jun 24 '13 at 16:38
  • Okay, so, on my system I ended up finding a different NTFS entry, but it works for my needs. This mounts with the ability for the GUI to mount it to the specified path, alows read/write, has executable permissions, and mounting is NOT attempted at boot. The problem with this though is that the NTFS partition type can't be mounted via command line using mount /path in an installation, and needs sudo, something about NTFS user mount support not being built into the tools or something (12.04): UUID=SOME-UUID /media/16GBBitcoin ntfs noauto,user,rw,exec 0 0 – Thomas Ward Jun 24 '13 at 16:42
  • Awesome Brother @mohit It worked. Now I can run the eclipse without a single problem. Thanks to everyone. I'm really surprised finding that the linux community is so helpful i can't imagine. I also learned a lot of things from everyone who answered my qwestion. – dgrgge4 Jun 24 '13 at 17:00
  • IMO a better option is to mount the ntfs partition with the permissions option see http://askubuntu.com/questions/86959/any-way-of-maintaining-permissions-when-using-ntfs-mounted-drive-in-ubuntu – Panther Jun 24 '13 at 18:08