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Unable to install "Server Admin Tools" on OS X due to missing rights

Unable to install "Server Admin Tools" on OS X due to missing rights

I just downloaded the "Server Admin Tools" from Apple. When I try to install it from the ServerAdminTools.pkg I get the usual "hello" and "read license" screens from the installer. When it comes to the page where it asks me to "select a destination", choose a hard-disk, it tells me that my primary disk cannot be chosen:

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Guest [Entry]

"Are you able to sudo with other commands?

Is your OS patched to the latest version?

Do you realize that Server Admin Tools are meant to be installed on Client OS, not on Server OS?

There are newer versions of Server Admin Tools than the one you linked to. Did you mean to download 10.5.7 or 10.6.2?

If none of those are the answer then this seems like one of those super rare cases where Repair Permissions (in Disk Utility) is actually the fix.

If that doesn't work you can also try creating another user and installing it from that.

Failing all of that, take a look at your logs when you try to install and see if there is anything of help there."