Comments on: Wubi Ubuntu Installer for Windows: OSError [Errno 13] Permission denied

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:02:38 +0000

New to Linux but not to Unix. I’m amazed at how BAD this product (WUBI) appears to be. I thought Windows wasn’t that great but this just made Windows look wonderful — a feat indeed. I’ve tried ALL variants of install for Ubuntu (on XP SP3) with the same nagative results as the rest of the guys in the forum and am frankly very disappointed with it all. It has just wasted my time, sapped my energy and put me off Linus in general. The whole process needs to be worked on, as it stands now (for me anyway) all it is doing is giving Linux a bad reputation, this, I assume was not the intention.

By: davor

davor — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:28 +0000

Just had the same problem today after uninstalling Ubuntu 10.04 and then installing 11.10. However, I manage to install 11.10 with wubi on this way. I mounted ISO image of Ubuntu with PowerISO and run wubi from that mounted disk. Didn’t have error this time.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:17:04 +0000

Thanks, I’ve read all the instructions and now all is working.

By: sachin

sachin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:56:27 +0000

@Ubuntu User were u able to resolve the error. i am getting the same issue.
C:\Users\****\AppData\Local\Temp\wubi-9.10ubuntu1-rev160.log

i am doing it on windows vista.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:52:42 +0000

“Wubi is the easiest tool to step into the Linux world, allowing Windows users to install Ubuntu with a single click.”

Unfortunately, that is not the case lol. Download the installer and the first thing you get is an error about the hard disc not being accessible. This error popups up about 100 times unless you CTRL+ALT+DEL and end the goofy python process that is trying to install ubuntu. You Google that error and find the way around it and then you can get to the next error which is a “Permission Denied” error message. If you are very lucky you will find a way around that and then you can make it to the next error….

There is still no easy way to install Linux and Ubuntu’s install just got a LOT worse.

By: Taidg

Taidg — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:17:41 +0000

Roberto,

I was able to get the installation to work with this tip. Thanks so much for your help!

By: Shaneeda Quit

Shaneeda Quit — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:15:54 +0000

I did find a workaround (finally!) for my particular situation. This is for Windows Vista Ultimate users. After running wubi, if a security prompt appears asking you to block or unblock, DON”T DO ANYTHING! Leave it there! The download will begin shortly and the installation will proceed. Once you see the reboot now or later screen message in the background, you can then click block or unblock to close the screen. If you don’t see the permission denied screen immediately afterward, you’re good to go. If you do see the error message, the install somehow failed (even though the screen says otherwise), and the PC will probably crash during the first reboot.

If this occurs:

-Uninstall Ubuntu.
-Delete ALL downloaded files and perform a disk cleanup.
-Use a registry cleaner to remove all the invalid Ubuntu entries.
-Download wubi again and run it.

After performing these steps, wubi worked for EVERY Ubuntu variant and distros from the wubi wuiki site.

By: Shaneeda Quit

Shaneeda Quit — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:17:26 +0000

I have the same problem Pedro Lucas is having. Regular Ubuntu installs fine but none of the others will! Vista doesn’t prompt me to unblock the download for regular Ubuntu, but does prompt me to unblock the download for the other variants. I viewed the log file and saw numerous “permission denied” entries. I then found this forum and tried the suggestions provided but they didn’t work either. I then tried to reinstall the variants one final time (which ended in failure), but I did notice they were all .torrent files. The default Ubuntu is a .tar.gz download so maybe that is why it worked and the others didn’t. Regardless, the latest version of the Ubuntu desktop is atrocious. Since I had to uninstall my earlier version, I can’t install back to an earlier wubi version because I receive the “permission denied” message, which is a .torrent file too. So long Ubuntu.

By: Pedro Lucas

Pedro Lucas — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:47:29 +0000

Same problem. In my case, I first installed “Ubuntu” with Wubi and it worked ok !!! (no permission denied) Problem is, I looked at the 11.04 “new” GUI and hated it, so I uninstalled it (via Wubi) and went for a “Kubuntu” (KDE) install in Wubi. It started to install fine but somewhere around 30% it started to go slow (peak time@internet) so I decided to cancel it and install the next day.
Guess what, now I’m getting the “permission denied” bug. Tried uninstalling, tried copying the ISO next to the Wubi.exe, tried moving Wubi.exe to different drives, tried formatting the target drive to reset any “weird” setting Wubi may have set. And no, my ISO (the one I copy next to wubi.exe) is not corrupted, I can launch it from vmware and it works fine.

What a piece of crap and a waste of time.

By: Durai pandian

Durai pandian — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:31:32 +0000

I Got same problem.***permission denied*** so i tried to install from the cd… Its only showing my windows derive and remaining space as single drive… What can i do