site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Macintosh/20070326) my understanding is that packagemaker isn't designed to install into users' home directories. is this true? does packagemaker not understand "~"? i guess i can test but i've been doing pretty much as others have suggested...install into /tmp and mv using post install script to "~". don Luke Bellandi <luke@apple.com> wrote: Hi David, Thanks, Luke On Apr 26, 2007, at 9:32 AM, David Bainbridge wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com Please file a bug about this issue at http://bugreporter.apple.com. Certainly we should provide a better solution for this sort of workflow.

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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