From 5168782c896a2c1da08a03262cb1672c8b59019e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juan Cruz Viotti Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:22:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document the need of execution permissions in home directory in Linux See: https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/3666 --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3a3d83a7..3c166ee3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ Etcher **Notice:** Etcher is in a very early state and things might break or not work at all in certain setups. -- **Etcher is currently broken on GNU/Linux due to a bug in Electron. See [#52](https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/52) for updates.** - Installation ------------ @@ -30,6 +28,12 @@ For now you can manually run the application with the following commands: git clone https://github.com/resin-io/etcher cd etcher npm install && bower install + +# In GNU/Linux, your home directory needs execution permissions +# in order to run Etcher as expected due to a bug in Electron. +# See https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/3666 +sudo chmod a+x /home/ + npm start ```