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My Vuze cannot update itself as it claims that my application folder is not writeable.
I tried to make it writeable by
chmod 777 /Applications I get the following error
$chmod 777 /Applications/ chmod: /Applications/: Operation not permitted How can you make /Applications folder writeable?
Assuming your account has admin privileges, try:
And then enter your password.
The danger that starblue mentioned is that by doing this, you are allowing essentially any user on your system full and complete read/write/execute access to your Applications folder.
I hope it’s apparent why this is normally, probably a bad idea, that you know what you’re doing, etc. etc.
Edited to further add: if you just want to give yourself write access, you’re probably much better off with:
rather than granting everyone complete access.