ejabberd - Comments for "Mac Installer can't install files"

Hello, It is mostly a

mremond — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:12:10 +0000

Hello,

It is mostly a Bitrock installer limitation. However, on my computer, when I launch the installer logged with as account which as the admin rights, the installation is working properly. No need to sudo or anything.

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Mickaël Rémond
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Mac users will expect the

IMSCARY@ejabberd.jabber.ru — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:09:36 +0000

Mac users will expect the installer to prompt them for priveleged actions. Even the 'administrator' accounts don't have priveleges required until prompted for a password that give them 'rootly' powers. This happens in a GUI with most installers on Mac, but not the 'bitrock' used by ejabberd.

One way to get ejabberd to install is to pre-create the prefpanes directory, and set your user permissions, it complains about not being able to create; it will then continue when you launch the installer

Another way is to use sudo to launch the installer inside the .app directory, thus:

sudo ./ejabberd-1.1.1_2-osx-installer.app/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder

If you do that, you'll need to run the Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder the same way.

Here's a nice reference for all this:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=311

Thanks for ejabberd! This seems like a bitrock installer issue. Wish I knew enough to help them with it intelligently.

Why doesn't it work like

trejkaz — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:34:34 +0000

Why doesn't it work like other installers? Usually an installer is supposed to ask for the system administrator password, and then proceed as normal.

Furthermore, how do I run it as an administrator? Sudo doesn't seem to make it happen.

That's right

mremond — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:54:38 +0000