Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 21, 2010, at 20:38, t...@qx.net wrote: Hello, I wasn't sure whether I was suppose wait for something to be done that was suppose to be done, or install the patch, so I decided to install the batch, and, the following happened after downloading what I thought to be the proper

RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-22 Thread t...@qx.net
@lists.macosforge.org Subject : RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error On Mar 21, 2010, at 20:38, t...@qx.net wrote: Hello, I wasn't sure whether I was suppose wait for something to be done that was suppose to be done, or install the patch, so I decided to install the batch, and, the following

RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-21 Thread t...@qx.net
: 3/20/2010 2:21:29 PM To : t...@qx.net Cc : macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Subject : RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:18, t...@qx.net wrote: As background, I have been trying to install faac from a source download, and have not been able to get any

Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 19, 2010, at 17:15, t...@qx.net wrote: I am attempting to use macports for the first time. I am not a computer science person, but do have limited experience with gcc and configure/make installations. I installed macports 1.7 from a disk image, with a successful completion

RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-20 Thread t...@qx.net
@lists.macosforge.org Subject : RE: Re: New user, port selfupdate error On Mar 19, 2010, at 17:15, t...@qx.net wrote: I am attempting to use macports for the first time. I am not a computer science person, but do have limited experience with gcc and configure/make installations. I installed

Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:18, t...@qx.net wrote: As background, I have been trying to install faac from a source download, and have not been able to get any help with the problem I have encountered. Continued web searching lead me to a mention of installing with 'the other site', which lead

New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-19 Thread t...@qx.net
Hello, I am attempting to use macports for the first time. I am not a computer science person, but do have limited experience with gcc and configure/make installations. I installed macports 1.7 from a disk image, with a successful completion message. I then tried the second step of % sudo

Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-19 Thread Richard DeLaurell
The man page says that -d (debug mode) implies -v. Did you try: sudo port -d selfupdate to see if there is any more debug info available that way? Sorry if this isn't helpful. Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM, t...@qx.net t...@qx.net wrote: Hello, I am attempting to

Re: New user, port selfupdate error

2010-03-19 Thread Frank Schima
We only support the latest version which is 1.8.2. If you just installed this, where did you get version 1.7 from? Please download and install the latest from the following link: http://www.macports.org/install.php What is the output of the following? which make Cheers! Frank On