On 11/25/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 25, 2007, at 13:29, paul beard wrote: > > > On 11/25/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > >> What Mac do you have? Did you previously have a different Mac, back > >> when you originally installed MacPorts? Maybe you used Migration > >> Assistant to transfer everything (including MacPorts) from the old > >> Mac to the new Mac? IF the old Mac was PowerPC-based and the new one > >> is Intel-based, that could explain the error you're seeing, and you > >> should really uninstall everything and start over. You can use "port > >> installed" to see what ports are installed. > > > > How will that work if the port command doesn't run? > > Good question. It might not work then. We might have to dig deeper to > see what's installed. Like this: > > cd /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/ > find . -name receipt.bz2 | sed -E 's%^\./(.*)/(.*)/receipt\.bz2$%\1 @ > \2%'
Watch the line-wrap: that \2% should stay on the same line. Same below . . . . Or, for the user's version of DarwinPorts before the new layout, I > hope this is it: > > cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/ > find . -name receipt.bz2 | sed -E 's%^\./(.*)/(.*)/receipt\.bz2$%\1 @ > \2%' > > > >> It also sounds like your PATH is not correct since it can't find the > >> port command. > > > > Actually, it does seem to find it OK: if the user types 'port > > <something>' and the result is > > > > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no > > suitable image found. Did find: > > /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib: > > mach-o, but wrong architecture > > > > it sounds like the command is there but if the error message is > > right, that the architecture is wrong. > > It sounds to me like the user is having to run "/opt/local/bin/port" > because when just "port" is run this error was shown: > > On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:14, tania habib wrote: > > > On Nov 25, 2007 2:11 PM, William Davis wrote: > >> > > > >> Did you try : > >> sudo port -d selfupdate > >> ? > > > > Yes I did, but it comes with the error that "port:command not found". > > I feel there is some path problem. Can please guide me through the > > procedure of setting the path variable in X11! > > > -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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