-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sepand Siassi wrote: > I'm following this instruction file: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/INSTALL.osx > I'm running leopard, so I installed funk-0.27.8 from source. Now I'm trying to go through the 3rd step, installing ghostscript. Here's what I did and what I got: > > sepand-siassis-macbook:~ sepandee$ apt-get install ghostscript > E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/sw/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? > sepand-siassis-macbook:~ sepandee$ cd / > sepand-siassis-macbook:/ sepandee$ apt-get install ghostscript > E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/sw/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? > sepand-siassis-macbook:/ sepandee$ > > What did I do wrong? Why were the permissions denied? I thought maybe running disk utility would fix it, but it didn't. > > Thanks > Sep A) apt-get has to be run as root for package install operations ("sudo apt-get install ...") B) There are no official Fink binaries for 10.5, so apt-get isn't going to do anything anyway. You will need to have Xcode installed and run "fink selfupdate-rsync", and then install ghostscript from source via "fink install ghostscript".
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