Ok, tried that but now it doesn't even see what 'port' command is, it's 'not found'. I am new to OSX, although not quite as new to Linux. I am just not getting how OSX is managing these things. It is acting quite weird.
________________________________ From: Stephen Langer <[email protected]> To: Potato Soup <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 9:00:18 PM Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg Try 'su -l'. -- Steve On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Potato Soup wrote: > I just logged in to my non Admin account and su'd to my admin account, and > when >trying selfupdate, it failed with: > > Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports >tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed > > It's almost as if su is not quite fully working. Weirdly when logged into my >admin account, I still had to su. Maybe that's how it works on OSX? But this >means that all commands to get things have to be done from an Admin session, >and >su is not enough? That doesn't sound right to me. > > > From: Scott Webster <[email protected]> > To: Potato Soup <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:35:44 PM > Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with >MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg > > I "run" macports as a regular user... but when I want to run the port > command I first "su" to an admin account and then run the port > commands with sudo. As far as I know macports requires full > privileges to work properly. Likely you could get something working > fully as non-admin by installing from source and changing some > options, but the installer assumes you want to put it in /opt/local > etc. > > Scott > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Potato Soup <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I removed it, and then logged into OSX with an admin account and > > reinstalled and then did selfupdate. Everything worked fine. So what's the > > deal, how do I set it to work from a non Admin account? I never work in an > > Admin account for fear of security issues. > > ________________________________ > > From: Lenore Horner <[email protected]> > > To: Potato Soup <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:06:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with > > MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg > > > > > > On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Potato Soup wrote: > > > > Hi I just installed the latest SnowLeopard Mac Ports > > (MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg) from the website, on my brand new 27" > > iMac with SnowLeopard and latest xcode, and when running port, it fails > > with: > > dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib, 10): no > > suitable image found. Did find: > > /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib: no matching > > architecture in universal wrapper > > while executing > > "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib" > > ("package ifneeded macports 1.0" script) > > invoked from within > > "package require macports" > > (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 39) > > > > I searched and all I could find was examples of people having this issue > > when upgrading from older OSX versions, not a brand new SLeopard. I am > > stumped and I now have a broken install. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Did you bring anything over from a previous Mac? If you did this in any > > automatic way, you probably brought over your old /opt/local built for the > > wrong OS. If not, I'm stumped but I'm sure someone else will know. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > macports-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > > > > > > <ATT00001..c> -- -- [email protected] Tel: (301) 975-5423 -- -- http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/Staff/SLanger/ Fax: (301) 975-3553 -- -- NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8910, Gaithersburg, Md 20899-8910 -- -- "I don't think this will work. That's why it's science." -- -- Naomi Langer (age 6), 17 Feb 2003 --
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