Re: A rather unique issue
On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:29, Mr. Bond wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 00:20, Mr. Bond wrote: There are several applications that I wish to use that are only really available through macports. However, when I try to install it, the installer responds that the install is successful, yet no files are actually written to the disk. When I attempted this from the command line in verbose mode, I received not a single error, yet no files were written. This macbook pro is basically new, I've only had it about a week, it's intell and lepoard, and the only things I have installed are adium, firefox, and deeper. Any Suggestions would be greatly appriciated. You've given us nothing to go on. We need to know your version of Mac OS X, Xcode and MacPorts, what computer you're using, what ports you're trying to install, and how you arrived at the conclusion that no files are actually written to disk. You should also examine the output of port contents portname to see whether the files are being installed some place you didn't expect. When I tried to install macports itself, no files are written. I know this because, 'port' is not a recognized command, that and I looked at the uninstall instructions to see what files to remove (to see if they were actually on the disk) and they were not. Yet, when i tried to run the installer again, it said that it would use 0MB of disk space. Yet, the install returns as a success. The hardware of this machine is: Model Name:MacBook Pro Model Identifier:MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.5 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache:6 MB Memory:2 GB Bus Speed:800 MHz Boot ROM Version:MBP41.00C1.B03 SMC Version:1.27f1 The software is: System Version:Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17) Kernel Version:Darwin 9.4.0 Boot Volume:Macintosh HD Boot Mode:Normal Computer Name:Mike's MacBook Pro User Name:Mike (mike) Time since boot:9 minutes Oh sorry, I didn't realize the issue was with installing MacPorts itself. I thought you had MacPorts installed and were having trouble installing a specific port. It is a known bug in the MacPorts 1.6.0 installer that the .profile does not get set up so you have to type the complete path to the port command (/opt/local/bin/port) or preferably set up your .profile manually. See the Guide: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell This bug has been fixed and will be in the next MacPorts release. It's also normal that not all paths listed in the uninstall instructions will be present on your system. The MacPorts filesystem layout has a changed a little over time, and the uninstall instructions are written to ensure that they work for any version of MacPorts, not just the current version. If you really do not have /opt/local/bin/port then something is indeed wrong. In that case I would recommend following the uninstall instructions in the FAQ to ensure there is nothing partially installed. Then install again, making sure you've downloaded the MacPorts 1.6.0 disk image for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (and not the MacPorts 1.6.0 disk image for a different version of Mac OS X). Use the Show Log menu item in the installer and change it to show everything, not just errors. Then do the install again. If it doesn't work, show us what the log window says. I don't remember if you can copy or save text out of it; if not, you can take a screenshot. Please remember to Reply All so your reply goes to the list too, not just to me. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
pidgin requires dbus (was: Re: A rather unique issue)
On Jul 17, 2008, at 21:16, Mr. Bond wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:29, Mr. Bond wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 00:20, Mr. Bond wrote: There are several applications that I wish to use that are only really available through macports. However, when I try to install it, the installer responds that the install is successful, yet no files are actually written to the disk. When I attempted this from the command line in verbose mode, I received not a single error, yet no files were written. This macbook pro is basically new, I've only had it about a week, it's intell and lepoard, and the only things I have installed are adium, firefox, and deeper. Any Suggestions would be greatly appriciated. You've given us nothing to go on. We need to know your version of Mac OS X, Xcode and MacPorts, what computer you're using, what ports you're trying to install, and how you arrived at the conclusion that no files are actually written to disk. You should also examine the output of port contents portname to see whether the files are being installed some place you didn't expect. When I tried to install macports itself, no files are written. I know this because, 'port' is not a recognized command, that and I looked at the uninstall instructions to see what files to remove (to see if they were actually on the disk) and they were not. Yet, when i tried to run the installer again, it said that it would use 0MB of disk space. Yet, the install returns as a success. The hardware of this machine is: Model Name:MacBook Pro Model Identifier:MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.5 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache:6 MB Memory:2 GB Bus Speed:800 MHz Boot ROM Version:MBP41.00C1.B03 SMC Version:1.27f1 The software is: System Version:Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17) Kernel Version:Darwin 9.4.0 Boot Volume:Macintosh HD Boot Mode:Normal Computer Name:Mike's MacBook Pro User Name:Mike (mike) Time since boot:9 minutes Oh sorry, I didn't realize the issue was with installing MacPorts itself. I thought you had MacPorts installed and were having trouble installing a specific port. It is a known bug in the MacPorts 1.6.0 installer that the .profile does not get set up so you have to type the complete path to the port command (/opt/local/bin/port) or preferably set up your .profile manually. See the Guide: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell This bug has been fixed and will be in the next MacPorts release. It's also normal that not all paths listed in the uninstall instructions will be present on your system. The MacPorts filesystem layout has a changed a little over time, and the uninstall instructions are written to ensure that they work for any version of MacPorts, not just the current version. If you really do not have /opt/local/bin/port then something is indeed wrong. In that case I would recommend following the uninstall instructions in the FAQ to ensure there is nothing partially installed. Then install again, making sure you've downloaded the MacPorts 1.6.0 disk image for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (and not the MacPorts 1.6.0 disk image for a different version of Mac OS X). Use the Show Log menu item in the installer and change it to show everything, not just errors. Then do the install again. If it doesn't work, show us what the log window says. I don't remember if you can copy or save text out of it; if not, you can take a screenshot. Please remember to Reply All so your reply goes to the list too, not just to me. Well, when I did the install the first time, indeed nothing was written, and I looked in all the places to verify that. but when I updated my XCode to 3.1, it installed. Since I'm new to mac, I just assumed that the program would be in /bin, /sbin or more likely / usr/bin or usr/sbin. Xcode 3.1 should be fine, though 3.0 should have worked too. In fact the MacPorts disk image installer package does not make use of Xcode at all, though installing MacPorts from source does, and most ports also require Xcode to be installed. The MacPorts environment is largely separate from the software Apple provides. MacPorts deliberately installs itself and its ports into a different prefix than your Apple-provided software (by default /opt/ local). Apologies if that wasn't clear; our documentation could still use some work. If you have suggestions for how to improve the documentation, let us know. And also figured that the .profile thing was related to the enviroment for compiling ports, and not the program itself. Yeah, it's related to both. Long story short, I got it installed, ran selfupdate and tried
Re: A rather unique issue
On Jul 17, 2008, at 00:20, Mr. Bond wrote: There are several applications that I wish to use that are only really available through macports. However, when I try to install it, the installer responds that the install is successful, yet no files are actually written to the disk. When I attempted this from the command line in verbose mode, I received not a single error, yet no files were written. This macbook pro is basically new, I've only had it about a week, it's intell and lepoard, and the only things I have installed are adium, firefox, and deeper. Any Suggestions would be greatly appriciated. You've given us nothing to go on. We need to know your version of Mac OS X, Xcode and MacPorts, what computer you're using, what ports you're trying to install, and how you arrived at the conclusion that no files are actually written to disk. You should also examine the output of port contents portname to see whether the files are being installed some place you didn't expect. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
