error message on imac, no permission to write to directory, help..

[evansville]

i'm a relatively new mac user, i move around in it with no problems, but when it gets technical, i'm lost. i have skitch installed, had the beta version, which expired, but when i download and try to install the latest release i get the following message.

skitch does not have permission to write to the application's directory. Are you running off a disk image? if not, ask your system administrator for help.

i'm lost, totally clueless, can somebody tell me how to change permissions so this will install, it's a much used application. i am just running mac like it was shipped to me, i haven't changed anything in defaults.

thanks so much for any help you can give me. jan

 

[txnoob]

you user may not have write access to the fold where you're trying to install...maybe?

Is your user set up as an administrator?

 

[evansville]

thanks for the help...

i finally got it working, thank you.

 

[gtr7]

How did you fix the problem??

I also have this error "Does not have permission to write to the application's directory! Are you running off a disk image? If not, ask your system administrator for help "

when I update the problem.