>(3) running 'make install' would not work since I had no permission to >write in some directories. I don't fully understand this since >I am the >admin and I was running logged in as such, but to no avail. > Solution: run this as > >sudo make install > >type in the password and you're off.
An admin user is not root, and it's better this way; it's far less a security issue if you can 'get root' at every time with sudo than if you would run everything constantly as root (or an admin user with root permissions). Greetlings, HR _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig