[TxMt] Re: installing text mate update on snow leopard

Martin Kühl martin.kuehl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 12:30:53 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:44, Paul Cowan <dagda1 at scotalt.net> wrote:
> I think it might be a permissions thing,  it states:
> - /Volumes/TextMate 1.5.9/TextMate.app is not writable so we need to ask for
> super user priveleges.
> - mv rename /Volumes/TextMate 1.5.9/TextMate.app to /Volumes/TextMate
> 1.5.9/TextMate.app.old.app: Read-only file system
> - helper (shell script) failed

This says that you are running TextMate from a disk image; the update
process tries to replace it on the image but fails since it is
read-only.  Move TextMate to your Applications folder and the update
should run fine.

HTH,
Martin


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