I did that: used mode 755 for directories, mode 644 for files there. 

Still, same error Unable to execute port: Could not open file: 
/Users/murray/macports/myports/kde/okular/Portfile

Did you get this to work with your own version of a port already included in 
MacPorts?

> On16 Mar 2020 21:13:58 +0100,Pieter van Oostrum <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: installing patched okular: cannot open Portfile
> 
> Ken Cunningham <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> 
>>    gives error:
>> 
>>        Unable to execute port: Could not open file: 
>> /Users/murray/macports/myports/kde/okular/Portfile
>> 
>>    Could it still be a permissions or ownership issue?
>> 
>> It is a permissions error. Although Chris and others seem to make this work, 
>> it has never worked
>> for me to put a macports repo in my home folder. I don’t know why, and I 
>> gave up trying to fix it.
>> 
>> Just put it in /Users/Shared/MacPorts or, what I do, is put them all in /opt 
>> (but then you have to
>> be careful with sudo, which I always am).
>> 
> Very strange. I have been using this construction for years. I have all my 
> directories in my private repository with mode 755, and the files 644.
> -- 
> Pieter van Oostrum

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