Trouble Installing Software & Updates, Please Help!

So my problem is installing software. I can download the packages just fine, they appear on my desktop and I can open the installer. The installer will start going along with it's business and finally at the very end it tells me that there was "an error installing software" or something to that effect.
When I try to install updates from Software Update it tells me "Make sure you have permission to write to /private/tmp/501 TemporaryItems com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, then try again."
I cannot find this folder anywhere on my computer, Is this a folder? I don't even know.
Any help or insights would be extremely appreciated!!!!!!!
400 MHz PowerPC G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iMac DV Slot Loading CD-ROM

Hi Laura,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
The directory you mentioned, /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/ exists at the top level of the directory tree, but it is Unix stuff that has been made invisible so that it does not get damaged or trashed. You can do a Finder search for the invisible "private" folder, and in that the "tmp" folder is not invisible, it is just inside an invisible folder. Once you find "private", you can open it by double-clicking its Icon in the Find display. Now you can see the 501 folder. Click on that and you see TemporaryItems.
Now you can click that folder, type Apple-i and change the permissions to yourself.
The different 501 temporary folders are here:
/private/var/tmp/mds/
/private/var/tmp/folders/
/.TemporaryItems/
/private/var/tmp/
In the Finder you could also choose "Go to folder..." and enter the path as I written above.

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