How do I install an app if it says "check with administrator"?

I'm the only user of my iBook and my account says I log in as admin. I'm trying to install some new Logitech Harmony remote (audio/video remote control) software. A box says "you are not allowed to install the software in the default location on the disk "Macintosh HD". check with the administrator of your computer". I had been trying to remove the old Logitech software (a success with the help of this forum). I had been changing ownership and permissions in the old app. I might have changed them in the new app. How can I install this application? Thanks! Kentar

Hi Kentar,
   It sounds like the app thinks you're not an administrator of the computer. I assume that you are but stranger things have happened. If you are then when you execute the command "id", without the quotes of course, it should show you as a member of the group "admin". If it does then something else is wrong. However, I was wandering about that when you said before that you couldn't drag the old app to trash and trash it. Usually an administrator can do that after authenticating even if part of the app is owned by root. If you're not a member of group admin, check out Michael Conniff's article, I lost my admin user.
   Otherwise, you might try deleting the receipt for the app in /Library/Receipts. Although the error message doesn't sound like that's the problem, the presence of a receipt has been known to make it impossible to reinstall an app.
   If none of that helps then I'd like to help but I'm going out of town as soon as I post this. If I can check the list from out of town I will but I don't think that I will be able to. In any case, good luck!
Gary
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