Am 23.09.2011 um 06:29 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>:
> On Sep 22, 2011, at 22:55, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Hello. I'm having issues installing Macports. The binary installer >> says the installation is failing. The log is available here: >> >> http://dev.inetpro.org/pastebin/888 >> >> Can anyone suggest a fix? > > The problem appears to be that your home directory path (/Volumes/Macintosh > HD/Users/cjones) contains spaces. We don't appear to have anticipated that. > Usually a home directory would just be e.g. /Users/cjones. You appear to have > two disks, "Mac System Disk" and "Macintosh HD"; presumably your OS is on Mac > System Disk but you want your home directory on Macintosh HD. > > Despite the error message, MacPorts has been successfully installed; you > don't need to run the installer again. Because of the problem you do need to > manually set up your shell though. See the guide: > > http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html > > We should fix this in the MacPorts installer. Nevertheless, consider changing > your setup so that your home directory path does not contain spaces, for > example rename your disk "Macintosh HD" to "MacintoshHD". I suspect there is > a fair amount of software out there that will not anticipate your home > directory path containing spaces I could be wrong but that setup sounds as if it is the SSD + hd iMac setup. If it is more and more people will eventually show up with that. I wonder why the full path to the home directory is being used and not the short way of ~ (though I'm sure there is a good reason why ;)). _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
