Yeah I tried that the other day with no luck. Then I figured it out. It seems as though the fact that it was retaining my previous install information when I originally installed darwinports was what was causing the issue. After installing the new version of macports and doing a selfupdate left me with the same problem. It was late at night by the time I did that so I just wiped my macports install and all its references and did a fresh install and then just ran a quick shell script to install everything I wanted over night. The next day when I checked everything I created the startup items for the services I wanted and rebooted and I have a fully functional macports install again. Still a little weird why the uninstall never worked but it is working now so that is all that matters.
Thanks for the help, Evan On 6/4/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 2, 2007, at 14:01, Evan Burrows wrote: > No, before now I have never had a need to uninstall a port so I > haven't tried but when I tried to uninstall pcre, expat, etc like > you said before I get the same problem about it not understanding > the uninstall command. I also can't explain why your MacPorts wouldn't be recognizing the uninstall command. It sounds like "something" is messed up with your base MacPorts installation, though I don't know much about the base code and so couldn't speculate as to what. Fortunately, I think you can safely reinstall MacPorts base without affecting any of your installed ports. Download the 1.4.0 disk image (the correct one for your OS version) and run the installer package on it. http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.4.0/ Then, "sudo port selfupdate" to update you to MacPorts 1.4.42 again. (I'd refer you to download 1.4.42 directly, except that we only make direct downloads of the major versions available.) I'm not confident that this will fix it... I'm also not 100% sure this won't mess up your installed ports. But I *think* it won't.
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