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 > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
