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




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