On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:50 p.m., Arno Hautala wrote: >> Two is that I am using OS 10.6.8, yet I have never seen a binary download. >> I still always download source and then it builds. > > This should indeed be the default. Can you post a transcript a port > installation? It's possible that the ports that you've installed > aren't available as pre-compiled binaries (licensing, variants, etc). > There should be a status line that states that port is trying to fetch > the binary from http://packages.macports.org/ You can browse that page > to verify that the port you're installing should be available.
Also check your macports.conf. I think "portarchivetype" has to be set to "tbz2" and "portarchivemode" set to "no". (Or both commented out or absent. My macports.conf doesn't even have "portarchivemode".) See this thread: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-November/026266.html vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
