Keep practicing with the command line. Eventually it gets easier. This was an ambitious project with which to start exploring the command line.

Well, it had also said that sudo (and port) were unrecognized commands. For instance, sudo install ccd2iso gave me an unrec. command on sudo, but just “install ccd2iso” seemed to install it fine. Was odd.

I did figure out the permission fixing, though. Was just me being silly and trying to write while it was all still read-only. >.>;

Thanks for the assist, but I think I’m going to get around this in another way. Command line business seems to be a little too far out of my range. Appreciate the quick response, though! ^.^

1. Are you trying the commands with sudo also:

sudo install ccd2iso

2. You seem to be having some issues with paths and permissions. Try repairing permissions in Disk Utility.

Otherwise, it looks like the set up on your Mac may be non-standard.

Non-standard paths and such can occur from repeatedly doing upgrades (10.2 > 10.3 > 10.4 > 10.5) instead of archive and install or fresh installs.

I solved all of these sorts of issues on my own computer by starting with a fresh install of 10.5 and adding all my own files and applications afterwards. It took some time but a lot of annoying issues went away.

> ccd2iso image.img mycd.iso
Unrecognized action “ccd2iso”

…when I try to ‘install ccd2iso,’ I get the following message:

Error: Unable to execute port: can’t create directory “/opt/local/var/macports/build”: permission denied

I went around this by manually creating a folder called “build” and putting it in that macports folder, which required me to put in a password to authenticate. I tried again:

Error: Unable to execute port: ln: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/sysutils/ccd2iso/work: Permission denied

How do I convince the terminal that I do, in fact, give it permission to do the things I’m telling it to do? It’s not asking me for a password or anything, it’s just saying “no.” What’s the deal?

Give it another try now.

Let me know what you think.

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