Okay, here are the latest instructions I can find. But it's kind of a nightmare in my opinion; you are supposed to uninstall and reinstall all your ports all over again in the process! I haven't yet done this though I may decide I have to at some point. What I've done so far is this:
The first problem was that Mavericks is missing /usr/bin/gnutar. If you don't still have a Mountain Lion install with that file you will indeed have to apparently reinstall macports. I just copied my file from my Mountain Lion installation to Mavericks. The second thing is to make sure that xcode is installed. Even if it is installed, you will want to run xcode-select --install or you will get a missing tcl error when you try to selfupdate. Now I did these things and then ran the selfupdate and upgrade outdated commands and it appears to work. But it is possible there are broken ports I don't know about so I may eventually follow the official instructions some day when I am feeling really ready to cope! I don't mind so much getting a list of my ports and uninstalling them but reinstalling them is what I hate! There's a script but if the script fails you have to reinstall manually and you can't just alphabetically go through the list; you are supposed to install the ones you really want (if you can figure out which ones those are!) and not the ones that are just dependencies as those will install when you do the needed ports. I've done this before at other OS changes and didn't enjoy it! I could probably send you the gnutar file if you want but again, I can't absolutely guarantee that this doesn't leave you with broken ports though I am not getting errors when running upgrades. So here are the standard instructions; you will have to follow the links to each of the indicated steps. I realize this has an October 5th date but I think it has been updated as things changed. At any rates, the links you are taken to are the official Macports ones. http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2013/10/05/macports-on-mavericks -- Cheryl Go beyond the Christmas story this year; meet Immanuel (God with us), Jesus, the crucified Savior, Christ, the risen Lord. On Dec 14, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Teresa, > > If you are using Mavericks, you will need to download the new install package > from the macports sight. > You probably need to update XCode as well if you don’t have 5 installed. > Hope that helps. > > On Dec 13, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, all, > > I have not even done a selfupdate for Macports in so long I don’t remeker the > last time I did it. When I try a selfupdate I get an error message about > execution failure. Is there another command I can use, or do I need to > download a package via another means? > > Thanks, > Teresa > > On the other hand, there are different fingers. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
