Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: volume does not support symlinks

[Matteo Quintiliani]

On 20/giu/05, at 20:48, Daniel E. Macks wrote: [CUT] Would be interesting to know what 'id' shows when you are *not* logged in as superuser. Usually, I log in as 'mtheo' (no sudoers) and when I have to install something I use 'oudeis' (sudoers) or 'root'. Below are shown the 'id' messages. lautrec:~ mtheo$ id uid=502(mtheo) gid=502(mtheo) groups=502(mtheo) lautrec:/Users/mtheo oudeis$ id uid=501(oudeis) gid=501(oudeis) groups=501(oudeis), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin) lautrec:~ root# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1(daemon), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 31(guest), 4(tty), 5(operator), 80(admin), 20(staff) The real issue here is that the user running the Installer needs to be able to write to the / directory. If all else fails,   1. sudo chmod 1777 /   2. Run the installer   3. sudo chmod 1775 / This works!!!  I have finally installed Fink-0.8.0. Thank you very much, Matteo