PackageMaker (Simple problem I'm sure)

Hi everyone -
Getting my feet wet playing around with PackageMaker, and there's one thing that doesn't make sense to me. How do you install to the "Users" directory without knowing the user's name? I can select a content piece in the left column, and in the right I can choose between an absolute or relative path to the destination (which is a folder inside /Users/[username]/), but it's using my username. How can this be dynamically written?
Message was edited by: domineydesign
Message was edited by: domineydesign

The PackageMaker UI is a complete mystery to me. Somehow, with version 3.0.1, they have managed to take a difficult to use product and make it even worse. So, I can't really help with the User Interface.
If you use the command line version, it goes from incomprehensible to only virtually unusable. On the command line, specify "--domain user". The man page says to use "--domain home" but that is wrong. On the command line, you can specifiy the root and the user domain and the software should be installed in the user's home directory. If you successfully get it to use the user domain, it shouldn't ask for an admin password. It will require the user to logout when the installer finishes. There is no way around that.
You can specificy "--domain user --domain system" and you can choose to "Install for all users of this machine" or "Install just for me". Regardless of the option you choose, you will have to enter an admin password. There is no way around that. At least you won't have to log out.
Unfortunately, it is not a simple answer. Feel free to read the installer-dev Apple mailing list. Those people know far more about PackageMaker than I do and they have no idea how to use it.
I'm now writing my own installer application. Good luck!

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