Wiping the install and reloading everything did the trick. Had a problem with ghostscript, but turned out I didn’t get everything reloaded (missing netpbm). That’s six hours I’ll never get back! Probably my own fault, but still. At least I ended Friday with everything working again.
Jim Seattle > On Aug 19, 2022, at 3:00 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 20 Aug 2022, at 2:34 am, Jim Secan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My Mac Mini server is running Mavericks (long story) and a recent update to >> xorg-xorgproto to version 2022.2 (well, since my last full macports update >> on the server) has decided it’s too good for Mavericks (10.9) and will only >> work on 10.10 or later. I was hoping I could just jettison everything that >> uses this, but that’s most of the X11 stuff, and Imagemagick, which I use a >> lot, depends on these. So, unless I can find older versions of these ports >> I’m dead until I upgrade my server. >> >> Any ideas of ways forward other than a new server? Upgrading the OS is right >> out. > > What I did with an old mac-mini is to run linux on it! (I also went to SSD) > but it is lovely > For me the biggest mac-loss was 'word' and MS tools, but I found 'softmaker' > to be a good substitute. > I use mac-ports lots so it was all familiar (gnuplot, imagemagick, > (rosegarden is a bonus) etc) > James
