I'm sending this reply back to the mailing list so others will know what happened.
On Mar 18, 2010, at 20:01, Jeffrey Van Myers wrote: > On 100318 7:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> > >> On Mar 18, 2010, at 16:35, Jeffrey Van Myers wrote: >> >>> Error: Unable to execute port: Image error: >>> /opt/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftadvanc.h already exists and does >>> not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port freetype. >> >> Why does this file exist already? >> >> You can force the activation: >> >> sudo port -f activate freetype >> >> But this file should not already have existed. The fact that it does >> suggests that you previously had MacPorts installed, and somehow uninstalled >> it incompletely. You may want to uninstall it correctly now, following the >> instructions in the Guide, and then reinstall the ports need, because it >> might not just be parts of the old freetype that are still on your hard >> drive, and they might cause problems later. >> > > Just bought the machine last July and never attempted to use MacPorts until > yesterday. Just managed to get MySQL5 up and running (had a privilege > problem that prevented mysqld from coming up). > > Issued: port -f activate freetype > > Got: > > ---> The following versions of freetype are currently installed: > ---> freetype @2.1.10_1 > ---> freetype @2.3.12_0+macosx > Error: port activate failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version > as recorded in the port registry. > > Can I somehow uninstall/remove the 2.1.10_1 version? freetype @2.1.10_1 is ancient -- was replaced with version 2.2.1_0 on 2006-05-27 -- so you appear to have installed MacPorts back in 2006 and installed some ports. (Back then, it was called DarwinPorts; the project renamed to MacPorts in August 2006. [1]) If not on this machine, then on a previous machine, and migrated it to this one with Apple's Migration Assistant during new OS setup. Your best bet is to uninstall MacPorts completely using the instructions in the Guide [2], then install anew, to ensure no parts of this ancient MacPorts installation remain. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports/18725 [2] http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
