R 1.9.1 fails to install for Mac 10.2.8 (PR#7190)

On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:30 PM, sbagley@ucla.edu wrote:

Was running R 1.9.0 on iMac (10.2.8) without problems.  Tried to run
installer
for 1.9.1, but this stops after only several seconds, saying "There
were
problems installing the software." Problem is repeatable, even after
repairing file permissions.

This is repeatable only in your setup and if you really "repaired"
permissions of R.framework it would go away ;) [Apple's DU doesn't do
that AFAIR]. It seems that your R 1.9.0 uses different rights than
1.9.1 which (depending on how you installed 1.9.0) may prevent the
1.9.1 installer from having sufficient rights to delete the old
version. The easiest way to solve this is to run
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/R.framework
in the Terminal, thus removing old R manually. Another possible fix is
to bump up the authentication requirement of the installer from "admin"
to "root" by editing the Info.plist ... which should be only done if
you know what you're doing ;). We could do that in general if that
bites more people...

Cheers,
Simon

Thanks for your quick reply.  Unfortunately, I tried the "sudo rm ...",
followed by reinstallation of R 1.9.1, which got nearly all the way through
the installation process, and then stopped with an error.  Log file follows:

R 1.9.1 Installation Log
    Target Selection
        _volumeAppeared: Adding volume Macintosh HD
        deactivate: removing all cells from _volumeMatrix
    Selected volume "Macintosh HD"
        Mounted at: /
        OpenFirmware: mac-io/ata-4@1f000/@0:5
        Partition type: HFS+
        Partition map: disk0s5
        Partition: 5
        Protocol: ATA
        Media Type: Generic
        Volume Size: 80019709952
    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on ./Library - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: ./Library - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on ./Library/Frameworks - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: ./Library/Frameworks - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on ./Library/Frameworks - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: ./Library/Frameworks - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on ./Library - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: ./Library - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: . - Operation not permitted

    Some files for R framework may not have been written correctly.
    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Could not set
permissions on . - Operation not permitted

    ERROR:Could not set file attributes. - pax: error 1:Access/modification
time set failed on: . - Operation not permitted

    Some files for libxml2 may not have been written correctly.
    Registered /Applications/R.app.
    ln: 
    /usr/bin/R
    : 
    Permission denied
    The postflight script in R framework failed.
    Install Failed
    Error detected
    Name: NSGenericException
    Reason: The postflight script in R framework failed. (code 1)