[X Newbies] Problems Installing Apps

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 4/1/04 8:42 AM, "Chris Walker" <chris at mymac.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I thought that when installing ANY app that the admin dialogue was
> supposed to appear to ask for the password, but I have noticed that it is
> possible for installations to proceed without this happening.  It just
> happened when installing the Freeway Web design prog.   With Palm
> Desktop, installation proceeded until towards the end when it asked for
> the PW.

Under Panther, unlike Jaguar, the password request comes at the very end of
the procedure. Are you saying, however, that sometimes you don't get a
password request at all? That's not normal.

I'd suggest you repair permissions. Open Disk Utility (in your Utilities
folder), click your drive in the left column, click the First Aid tab, then
click the Repair Permissions button. Don't be surprised if it corrects lots
of files.
 
 
Kirk
 
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