As the original poster, I must apologize... I was trying to run " $magick> sudo port install ImageMagick" literally, with "$magick>" included. Once I simply ran " sudo port install ImageMagick" all was well.
Typical newbie, stirring up a mess 'o trouble. :( Sorry, and NVM!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Webster" <[email protected]> To: "Ryan Schmidt" <[email protected]> Cc: "earachefl" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:53:52 PM Subject: Re: Insufficient privileges? Is your user an administrator? If not, you need to su to an administrator user before using sudo. Scott On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2011, at 16:27, earachefl wrote: > >> I'm trying to install ImageMagick on 10.5 , using "$magick> sudo port >> install >> ImageMagick" and get error message: "Error: Insufficient privileges to write >> to MacPorts install prefix." I've run sudo port selfupdate already. What >> should I try? Thanks! > > Curious. You'd think with sudo you'd be getting root privileges which should > be able to do *anything*. > > Have you set macportsuser to something (other than root) in macports.conf? > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >
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