pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

2012-01-28 Thread Yemi Adebiyi
Hello all, I am a new user of Mac. I got to know about Macport when I wanted to install NCL visualization program used in atmospheric science. Since I was addicted to the tools i was familiar with on Linux, I became a big fan of Macport. Now the problem is that after installing Macport both

Re: pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

2012-01-28 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 21:12, Yemi Adebiyi wrote: > I considered doing the self update using the command: sudo port selfupdate. > but what i had in return was this message: > > Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? > --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > E

Re: pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

2012-01-28 Thread Richard DeLaurell
No expert here, but it seems like you may have thisproblem (no access to rsync) and this is probably the best solution (i.e. use svn instead of rsync). I think it will help the true experts on this list t

Re: pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

2012-01-28 Thread Yemi Adebiyi
After i ran /sudo port -d selfupdate/ this is what I got: Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync rsync: failed to con

Re: pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

2012-01-29 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 22:26, Yemi Adebiyi wrote: > --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at > /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]