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Re: packagemaker installer panther error
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Re: packagemaker installer panther error


  • Subject: Re: packagemaker installer panther error
  • From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:14:27 +0100

You set drwxrwxrwx user staff as the privileges for the /Applications folder.

You did not set any option as: Overwrite permissions, Use User Mask. And the package does not require any authentication.

As the required privileges for /Applications are:

drwxrwxr-x root admin

the installer will not work on Mac OS X 10.3.

The description of the problem can be seen in the Log of Installer.app (File : Show Logs)

The fact that this is working on Mac OS X 10.2 is a bug in the Installation.framework.

So a solution to make everything works fine is to set the proper owner/group and permissions and if I were you I would require admin authentication to install stuff in /Applications.

Another solution is, if you don't install anything other than the application in /Applications, to avoid using an Installer and just indicate the user to drag and drop the folder in the /Applications folder. There's only one limitation, you can't do this from a non admin user account.
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