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On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2011, at 19:07, james collins wrote: > >> I am thinking of reinstalling my operating system. I think I am making this >> harder than it should be? > > Something is definitely harder than it should be here, but I don't know yet > what. Reinstalling the operating system is a pretty drastic step, but of > course also doesn't erase the hard drive, so if there is a setting that is > causing MacPorts to misbehave, there's no guarantee reinstalling the OS would > change that. > > >> If I started fresh all I should have to do is install macports and then run >> sudo port install recoll? >> >> Like I don't have to download recoll or edit the configuration file? > > Correct. > > >> The reason I am going to reinstall my operating system is because I have >> installed and uninstalled macports like 5 times. >> >> I wondered if I reinstall macports will it overide previous versions? > > Yes, but it will not overwrite your MacPorts configuration files. Which is > why I asked if there was any change in them. But if you followed the > uninstall instructions before, which included deleting /opt/local completely, > then any old config files would have been wiped out as well. > > >> And I also wondered why my installer didn't install to /opt/local ? > > The MacPorts disk image installer does install MacPorts into /opt/local; > there is no option for it to do anything else. I see the folder for macports in /opt/local/etc But no folder in /opt/local And then there is files in like /opt/local/var etc. That is why I say macports is in /opt/local/etc And I am getting another error regarding xapian-core And I can't find xapian-core on my computer? Should macports have installed it? > > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
