Re: Installing Lua on macOS in order to update Lua.

Glenns-iMac:usr trav$ ll

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  976 root  wheel  31232 Feb 20 05:37 bin

drwxr-xr-x  291 root  wheel   9312 Jan 30 14:33 lib

drwxr-xr-x  247 root  wheel   7904 Feb 20 05:37 sbin

drwxr-xr-x  234 root  wheel   7488 Jan 30 14:33 libexec

drwxr-xr-x   45 root  wheel   1440 Dec  7 09:31 share

drwxr-xr-x    8 root  wheel    256 Jan 19 09:40 local

drwxr-xr-x    5 root  wheel    160 Oct  3 00:48 standalone

Glenns-iMac:usr trav$ 

Seeing as how /usr will be installed there, I have to use sudo, else nothing gets put in there by the Install command.

On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:23 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

It was thus said that the Great Glenn Travis once stated:
No Sir, nothing like that. I have run afoul of the permissions error
before so I understand what you are saying. They were just not there, and
when I do see them, I know that I have to go the sudo route.

Interesting. I have two Macs I use (one personal, one for work). On my
personal one, "/usr/local" is owned by root, so I would get an error trying
to install Lua. On the work Mac, however, "/usr/local" is owned by me
(except for "/usr/local/man" for some reason). The only thing I can think
of is that I have used homebrew on the work Mac, but not on my personal Mac
(I really don't do development on the home Mac).

But I suspect that "/usr/local" is owned by you (the non-root account you
use).

-spc