You should not run this program as root You are currently running this program as the root user. However, <%= PROGRAM_NAME %> was not installed by the root user. Instead, it was installed by the <%= @owner %> user. For this reason, this program has stopped itself, because proceeding as root can mess up all kinds of file permissions. Please re-run this program as the <%= @owner %> user, not as root. But if you are sure that you want to run this program as the root user (which this program doesn't recommend), then re-run this program using the --force parameter.