Fortunately, I took care of Xcode last night, so hopefully, I'm well on my way.

Teresa

On the other hand, there are different fingers.

On Dec 14, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don’t think it will take you much time.  You shouldn’t have to reinstall 
> all of your packages.  I just ran the new installer and everything works 
> fine.  Downloading and installing XCode5 will take the longest.
> 
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Barry and Cheryl. I’ll consider tackling this. :) I do have time on 
> my hands.
> 
> Teresa
> 
> "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham
> 
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, here are the latest instructions I can find. But it's kind of a 
>> nightmare in my opinion; you are supposed to uninstall and reinstall all 
>> your ports all over again in the process! I haven't yet done this though I 
>> may decide I have to at some point. What I've done so far is this:
>> 
>> 
>> The first problem was that Mavericks is missing /usr/bin/gnutar. If you 
>> don't still have a Mountain Lion install with that file you will indeed have 
>> to apparently reinstall macports. I just copied my file from my Mountain 
>> Lion installation to Mavericks.
>> 
>> The second thing is to make sure that xcode is installed. Even if it is 
>> installed, you will want to run
>> 
>> xcode-select --install
>> 
>> or you will get a missing tcl error when you try to selfupdate.
>> 
>> Now I did these things and then ran the selfupdate and upgrade outdated 
>> commands and it appears to work. But it is possible there are broken ports I 
>> don't know about so I may eventually follow the official instructions some 
>> day when I am feeling really ready to cope! I don't mind so much getting a 
>> list of my ports and uninstalling them but reinstalling them is what I hate! 
>> There's a script but if the script fails you have to reinstall manually and 
>> you can't just alphabetically go through the list; you are supposed to 
>> install the ones you really want (if you can figure out which ones those 
>> are!) and not the ones that are just dependencies as those will install when 
>> you do the needed ports. I've done this before at other OS changes and 
>> didn't enjoy it! I could probably send you the gnutar file if you want but 
>> again, I can't absolutely guarantee that this doesn't leave you with broken 
>> ports though I am not getting errors when running upgrades.
>> 
>> So here are the standard instructions; you will have to follow the links to 
>> each of the indicated steps. I realize this has an October 5th date but I 
>> think it has been updated as things changed. At any rates, the links you are 
>> taken to are the official Macports ones.
>> 
>> http://www.ghostwheel.com/merlin/Personal/notes/2013/10/05/macports-on-mavericks
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheryl
>> 
>> Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
>> meet Immanuel (God with us),
>> Jesus, the crucified Savior,
>> Christ, the risen Lord.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 14, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Teresa,
>>> 
>>> If you are using Mavericks, you will need to download the new install 
>>> package from the macports sight.
>>> You probably need to update XCode as well if you don’t have 5 installed.
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> 
>>> On Dec 13, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, all,
>>> 
>>> I have not even done a selfupdate for Macports in so long I don’t remeker 
>>> the last time I did it. When I try a selfupdate I get an error message 
>>> about execution failure. Is there another command I can use, or do I need 
>>> to download a package via another means?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Teresa
>>> 
>>> On the other hand, there are different fingers.
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