To whom it may concern, I'm considering the daunting task of removing macports due to frustration and time constraints. Frankly, I'm not even sure what I did wrong, but I recently found myself needing to reinstall octave. I was initially using the standalone package, but tossed it due to a failure to call gnuplot. So, I tossed the stand alone gnuplot and aquaterm as well. I believe that installing octave through macports would also make it automatically install gnuplot and aquaterm.
I already had macports installed, but I tried to reinstall because I thought I had too due to updating xcode. However, I now use filevault, which means macports couldn't be installed in my user folder, which I think means I now have multiple copies of macports installed. When trying to install octave I get this: sudo port install octave-devel +gcc45 ---> Computing dependencies for gettext ---> Dependencies to be installed: ncurses ---> Activating ncurses @5.9_1 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/captoinfo is being used by the active ncursesw port. Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate ncurses' to force the activation. Error: Failed to install ncurses Log for ncurses is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncurses/ncurses/main.log Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade flex failed To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> I tried activating ncurses and got this: port -f activate ncurses Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix. I tried removing ncurses and I got this: ---> The following versions of ncurses are currently installed: ---> ncurses @5.7_0+darwin_10 ---> ncurses @5.9_1 Does anyone have any clue how to help me? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, ABD
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