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Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error
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Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error


  • Subject: Re: Non-admin install to Home Receipt error
  • From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:04:53 -0700

Like I said, there's no workaround for this. Leopard should have improved support for installing into home directories.

I suggest you create a drag-installable solution.

-pmb

At 3:43 PM -0500 4/26/07, David Bainbridge wrote:
My goal is to install to their home directory using non-admin. What do I use for the Default Location field to install in a user's home folder? You get the warning about the installer not able to expand ~ if you simply use "~/Applications" and to use a postflight script to copy the files to the home folder instead.

Thanks.


On Apr 26, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Peter Bierman wrote:

There isn't a workaround for this. If you have a non-admin user doing a non-admin install, the install location MUST be to their home directory or a sub-directory of the same, or you will have this problem.

-pmb


At 11:32 AM -0500 4/26/07, David Bainbridge wrote:
As has been mentioned in the archives but without a clear solution, I am trying to install to the User's Application folder ( ~/Applications). To do this in PackageMaker I install to /tmp first then with postinstall script mv application to the user's Applications folder. The problem is the receipt is trying to be copied by packagemaker to the /Library/Receipts folder instead of ~/Library/Receipts. The installer does not require Admin privs so this does not work and I get this error in the log:
Apr 26 10:39:05 Mac-Pro : pkgReceiptMaker[518]: 2007-04-26 10:39:05.052 pkgReceiptMaker[518] Error 13 (Permission denied) trying to rename App.pkg to /Library/Receipts/App.pkg


What is required to avoid this error since the installer tells the user the installation failed because of this??

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