[HenriHelvetica]

I have largely stayed away from the command line @ much as possible, but i've been recently drawn into it purely due to work - and it's not that bad. ANYHOW, here's my q?:

I went to install Sass (for all you web devs), and as easy as it is, here's what took place.

1st, I didn't have write permissions - whatever - I'm the admin on this lap and...
2nd, that warning was enough go me to abort mission.

Clearly, I saw the red flag and this is what I've always feared from using the command line. Does anyone have some wisdom for me on this one??

Thx.

 

[John Clay]

Enter your password and get on with it.

Just because you're an admin on the system doesn't mean you have write access to all the directories; you'll have to authenticate as root (via sudo) to modify those files/directories.

 

[HenriHelvetica]

Enter your password and get on with it.

Hey... I just want to make sure I'm not going to erase anything sensitive... although I do carry a back up w/ me. Anyhow, will do.

H!

 

[WCraig]

BTW, you'll only see the sudo warning once (per account) so you can do something absolutely harmless (eg 'sudo pwd'), enter your password and carry on.

Craig

 

[John Clay]

Hey... I just want to make sure I'm not going to erase anything sensitive... although I do carry a back up w/ me. Anyhow, will do.

H!

I didn't mean it in a rude way, just that it wouldn't do any harm to ignore the warning

 

[HenriHelvetica]

I didn't mean it in a rude way, just that it wouldn't do any harm to ignore the warning

All good. Just wanted to insure i wasn't going scramble my lap's guts / brains or something.

Just did it moments ago.

Thx.

H!

 

[polywog]

I have largely stayed away from the command line @ much as possible, but i've been recently drawn into it purely due to work - and it's not that bad. ANYHOW, here's my q?:

I went to install Sass (for all you web devs), and as easy as it is, here's what took place.

1st, I didn't have write permissions - whatever - I'm the admin on this lap and...
2nd, that warning was enough go me to abort mission.

Clearly, I saw the red flag and this is what I've always feared from using the command line. Does anyone have some wisdom for me on this one??

Thx.

You should be fine; as an admin, you have permissions to execute as an administrator but those permissions aren't active until you use sudo. It's similar to how some applications prompt you for a password when you try to install or delete an application from /Applications

That said, you could always cp that 2.0.0 directory to 2.0.0.backup, and then proceed. Better safe than sorry.