Insufficient privileges?

[Scott Webster]

Is your user an administrator?  If not, you need to su to an
administrator user before using sudo.

Scott

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2011, at 16:27, earachefl wrote:
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>> I'm trying to install ImageMagick on 10.5 , using "$magick> sudo port install
>> ImageMagick" and get error message: "Error: Insufficient privileges to write
>> to MacPorts install prefix." I've run sudo port selfupdate already. What
>> should I try? Thanks!
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> Curious. You'd think with sudo you'd be getting root privileges which should be able to do *anything*.
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> Have you set macportsuser to something (other than root) in macports.conf?
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