Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Sending this reply back to the list... On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:33, Thomas Scofield wrote: > On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Er, right. Sorry, I forgot, /opt/local/bin/perl is provided by perl5.8 not >> perl5. Either way, it looks like /opt/local/bin/perl is supposed to be

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 17:15, Thomas Scofield wrote: > On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> What does the following produce for output. >> >> $ port contents perl5 >> >> $ port contents perl5.8 > > Mac20952:notes scofield$ port contents perl5 > Port perl5 contains: > /opt/l

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > >> [Ryan Schmidt (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] >> >>> If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and >>> active: >>> >>> port installed perl5.8 perl5 >>>

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 16:18, Thomas Scofield wrote: >> You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale-gettext's >> dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: >> >> sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext >> sudo port install p5-locale-gettext >> >> If that fails the same way

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: [Ryan Schmidt (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port installed perl5.8 perl5 If they are, you could try reinstalling them: sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
[Ryan Schmidt (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] > If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: > > port installed perl5.8 perl5 > > If they are, you could try reinstalling them: > > sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8 perl5 Indeed, that is almost certainly necessar

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Thomas Scofield wrote: You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale- gettext's dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext sudo port install p5-locale-gettext If that fails the same way, verify pe

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
> > You seem to be missing perl, though it is one of p5-locale-gettext's > dependencies. Please clean p5-locale-gettext and try again: > > sudo port clean p5-locale-gettext > sudo port install p5-locale-gettext > > If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active:

Re: errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2011, at 09:57, Thomas Scofield wrote: > I'm effectively unable to use port (I have version 1.9.2) now on my Mac using > OS 10.6.5. I tried using it today to get VLC, but have had similar problems > in the past getting other ports. Note that VLC is a problematic port to install with

errors installing a port

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Scofield
I'm effectively unable to use port (I have version 1.9.2) now on my Mac using OS 10.6.5. I tried using it today to get VLC, but have had similar problems in the past getting other ports. Here is the content of messages: [Users/scofield] > install VLC ---> Computing dependencies for p5-locale