Paul, On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Paul Hewson wrote:
> Hello, > I have just been given an institutional macbook - I'm very used to linux, but > some apple things are baffling me (like the lack of sudo apt-get update and > upgrade for example). > It's called softwareupdate on OS X ... apt is specific to Debian, so, yes, OS X is not Debian :) Just install Debian on the MacBook if you don't want to be baffled, it's possible and some people that buy Macs just for the hardware do it. > I've installed roasted marshmallows, it's very nice. However, I can't run > it from command line (or aquamacs) due to some permissions error. I've > checked both R, the R64 and the symlink as described on the FAQ page. All > the permissions look OK (everyone seems to have x). > > The only thing I can think of is that I'm not in the admin group (and can't > seem to put myself in that group). Could this be a chmod issue or am I > barking up the wrong tree completely. > We can't tell because you omitted all useful information ... (what error? where? how do you start it?) Cheers, Simon > Paul > > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > Paul Hewson > Editor, Teaching Statistics (www.teachingstatistics.co.uk) > Associate Professor (SL) Statistics > School of Computing & Maths > Plymouth University > Drake Circus > Plymouth PL4 8AA > ++44 (0)1752 586870 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
