*** How to install an app without admin password?

I'm trying to install Final Cut Studio 2 and the system keeps asking for my admin password. I don't know it b/c I'm borrowing this computer from my dad. Is there a way to install an app without having to type in the admin password or is that step always required?
Thanks in advance!

If your login window is showing the list of users, you can find the "short name" for each such user by hovering the cursor over that user.
If that doesn't give you what you need, boot again directly from the install DVD and use it to enable and set a password for the System Administrator (root) account -- follow the prompts. Be sure the password you set is not blank. This is the super user that's built into the system independent of your dad's normal "administrator" account. Now reboot again from your hard drive. In the login window, select the "other" option that will now appear. Then login as "root" and with the password you just assigned.
At this point you can use System Preferences / Accounts to adjust the passwords and administrator access privileges of your normal accounts on the machine.
Once you have done that, log out as "root" and log back in as a normal administrator account. Now go to Applications / Utilities / Directory Utility and disable the "root" user account once again for safety.
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