What Mac do you have? Did you previously have a different Mac, back
when you originally installed MacPorts? Maybe you used Migration
Assistant to transfer everything (including MacPorts) from the old
Mac to the new Mac? IF the old Mac was PowerPC-based and the new one
is Intel-based, that could explain the error you're seeing, and you
should really uninstall everything and start over. You can use "port
installed" to see what ports are installed. Once you reinstall
MacPorts, you can manually reinstall all those ports. To uninstall
MacPorts, follow these instructions:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/
FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts
If you're sure MacPorts previously worked on this Mac, then it
shouldn't be necessary to uninstall, though I can't yet explain what
else might be going on.
It also sounds like your PATH is not correct since it can't find the
port command. Instructions for installing MacPorts properly,
including setting the PATH (which doesn't really have anything to do
with X11 in this case) are currently here:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:32, tania habib wrote:
so do i need to uninstall the macport and reinstall it?
I do not understand one thing as the last time it was working on my
system and I installed various packages!
Please let me know if there is a way of saving the packages I
installed through macports before I delete it from my system?
On Nov 25, 2007 6:21 PM, paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/25/07, tania habib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear List,
It has been long since I installed macports on my mac osx 10.4. I
used
the ports to install many packages but then I went on to do some
other things and did not use ports for a while. Last week, when I
tried to intialize the port, it did not work!
When I go to and X11 terminal and type port , it gives me the
following error message
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no
suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:
mach-o, but wrong architecture
sounds like you have an Intel system with a PPC code base
installed. the
problem isn't in your PATH, as it find port correctly, but can't
run it.
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