What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Download the PPC binary to my computer 2. Install it via clicking :P

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expected success message. Got instead "Installation failed--unable to install some files in /" [or something similar]

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? OSX 10.5, PPC

Please provide any additional information below. some have reported that using port works. sudo port install git-core

that error actually isn't indicative that it failed all together. I'm still not sure why it shows, but I just saw it show up on another computer, and the install actually worked perfectly.

... strange :)

The port is a bit older. Can you see if it installed on your computer? What happens if you type 'git --version' in Terminal.app?

Roger went ahead and installed git via macports... so the thing to check would be if:

/usr/local/git/bin/git runs

yeah the port install worked. Apparently there's a work around tim put up on his blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TimTheEnchanter/~3/264616384/git-os-x-installer-is-official.html

I got this same error when I installed it on my ppc using a non admin account. When I swapped over to my admin account it did not show the message. But git is still not on the path. Off to sort that out now.

Does this help? May 7 23:51:36 Kochs-PowerBook pkgExtractor[65595]: BomFileError 13: Permission denied - ///._cplibs.sh

the rest of the log is in attach.

I just found out all files seem to be in place, in spite the installation failure. As pointed out in http://tim.theenchanter.com/2008/04/git-os-x-installer-is-official.html Quote: "set PATH and MANPATH in your environment to include /usr/local/git/bin and /usr/local/git/man, respectively" Works as advertised.