Insufficient privileges?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 17, 2011, at 16:27, earachefl wrote:

> I'm trying to install ImageMagick on 10.5 , using "$magick> sudo port install
> ImageMagick" and get error message: "Error: Insufficient privileges to write
> to MacPorts install prefix." I've run sudo port selfupdate already. What
> should I try? Thanks!

Curious. You'd think with sudo you'd be getting root privileges which should be able to do *anything*.

Have you set macportsuser to something (other than root) in macports.conf?