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A possible fix for a broken Software Update
Authored by: leenoble_uk on Sep 08, '04 10:49:59AM

I'm not sure of the error message but in Jaguar and Panther I had problems installing via Software Update even though I could download and install manually. I eventually worked out that it was because my day to day account was not an admin user and as such didn't have permission to write to /Library/Packages.
For some reason they forgot to add an authentication dialog to cater for this scenario. Changing permissions on that folder fixed my problem and now I can install SU packages from the proper interface.

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