Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Christopher Johnston wrote:
I am trying to install a program via fink and have been instructed to
copy a file to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/, but when I try to
do that I get a 'permission denied' message. Does anyone know how to
change the permissions to fink folders?
You might try using 'sudo' in front of your command as opposed to
changing permissions on the folders.
OTOH, the folder /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ is really there for
the $USER; there is no reason why it should be owned by root. Depending
on the installation method, /sw/fink/dists/local/ and some
subdirectories are created with root ownership, but the subdirectory
main (which was probably manually created by the user anyway), could
well be re-owned by the user:
sudo chown -R $USER /sw/fink/dists/local/main/
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Martin
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