> On 12 Sep 2016, at 17:39, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> I should read more documentation on “port select”. I think that “man port”
>> does not give an adequate explanation, and I would welcome a pointer to
>> fuller documentation about “port select”.
>
> The new
> On 13 Sep 2016, at 03:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 12, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt
>> wrote:
>> What do you get when you run:
>> port provides
In view of all my moans and groans, I would like to make it clear that I think
MacPorts is great, and it adds greatly to my productivity. I use it all the
time, and tend to regard it as “Just there and working perfectly” usually
without thinking of the arduous contributions being made behind
> On 11 Sep 2016, at 23:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On my system I see the contents of that directory are provided by the
> following ports:
>
> $ port provides /opt/local/etc/select/python3/*
> /opt/local/etc/select/python3/base is provided by: python3_select
>
Thanks very much for all your work on my issue: much appreciated.
However, it’s looking like too much manual work, and also somewhat hazardous,
at least to me as a non-expert. Moreover, I have no confidence that everything
will be consistent, even if I successfully and correctly manually delete
On 11 Sep 2016, at 14:41, Lawrence Velázquez <lar...@macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 4:13 AM, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> For those few interested in this thread, and who have not followed so far,
>> the
s?
>
>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 1:13 AM, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> livm
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I can
erase /opt/local and start again, or maybe there is a third choice. I would
welcome advice from the list.
Best wishes
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would submit a bug report. If someone else feels
like doing this, I can cooperate by running other commands on my system and
reporting the results to the “someone else”.
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talled, which I think was your interpretation, but they
aren’t installed, as I have checked with the “port installed” command.
It does feel as though I will, with the help of the list, be able to clean up
my ports: I had been thinking that I would have to delete everything in
/opt/local and
> On 10 Sep 2016, at 23:13, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>
… snip …
> Run this:
>
> find -L /opt/local -type l
>
> This will print any broken symlinks in your MacPorts prefix. Email the output
> to this list, and we can tell you what you can safely delete.
>
> vq
I
Thanks for your help:
> On 10 Sep 2016, at 19:38, Lawrence Velázquez <lar...@macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 1:42 PM, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I gave the command:
>>
>> ls -l /opt/local/bi
cannot remember any of my port
processes terminating incorrectly. I have lately been uninstalling
python-related ports, because I had too many different versions of python on my
machine, and I was getting confused.
David Epstein
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and the command completed without comment or response.
Is this difficulty special to gimp, or is there some MacPorts convention or
rule that I don’t know about?
Thanks
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of firewall. However, that is just wild
conjecture. But it is true that I’m not at the usual place from where I have in
the past successfully run selfupdate without a problem.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I am can say what they think, and let me
know if there is a workaround.
Thanks
David
Could the advice about downloading Xcode please be slightly improved? I spent
a few hours last night battling to get Macports reinstalled last night, with
continual errors. I restarted the process from scratch at least 2 times.
Finally I started writing to this forum about my woes, and decided
I’m using Xcode 5.1.1 (5B1008) on OSX 10.9.2.
Yes, you are right: I carelessly ignored the instruction to run xcode-select
—install”, thereby giving myself unnecessary grief.
On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:42, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Apr 25, 2014, at 04:39, David Epstein wrote
On 4 Dec 2013, at 12:06, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 05:16, David Epstein wrote:
I'm using MacOsX 10.8.5 with Macports base version 2.2.1. There seem to be
tickets related to webkit-gtk, but I'm too ignorant to understand whether
they are saying anything
On 4 Dec 2013, at 13:08, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 06:48, David Epstein wrote:
On 4 Dec 2013, at 12:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 05:16, David Epstein wrote:
I don't use any of this, but presumably programs, that I do use, need
On 4 Dec 2013, at 14:31, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 08:02, David Epstein wrote:
On 4 Dec 2013, at 13:08, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 06:48, David Epstein wrote:
On 4 Dec 2013, at 12:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 4, 2013, at 05:16, David
Here is a record of what I typed and the response
H2:~% port search rmtrash
rmtrash @0.3.3_2 (sysutils)
move the file to OS X's Trash
H2:~% sudo port install sysutils
Error: Port sysutils not found
Can someone enlighten me on what the situation is with rmtrash? The above two
port commands
Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
The fact that you clearly have a 64-bit Mac, and that zlib was
nevertheless installed 32-bit, and on MacPorts 1.8 or earlier, suggests
zlib was in fact installed a long time ago, when you were running Leopard
or earlier, perhaps on a previous machine whose disk was
/#project.tickets
I was actually trying to install octave under macports. This called for
gcc44, and then it stumbled. Maybe I should install it some other way.
Thanks for any help.
David Epstein
Here are the last lines of the main.log file referred to in the error
message. I hope this includes everything
Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:00, David Epstein
david.epst...@warwick.ac.ukwrote:
:info:build ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib, file
was
built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being
linked
(x86_64)
This is the key
Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
How can I check the zlib port?
This will tell you more about the zlib you have installed, including
architecture:
port -v installed zlib
I get only
The following ports are currently installed:
zlib @1.2.5_0 (active)
which is less information than I get from
Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
You must be running an old version of MacPorts then.
Have you considered updating it `port selfupdate`?
I get:
$ port -v installed zlib
The following ports are currently installed:
zlib @1.2.5_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='x86_64'
That's an
Is there a gnu version of stat? I have a version of stat on my Mac, provided
I suppose by Apple, in /usr/local/bin/stat, but I wanted a version that
would have a good chance of being available on Linux platforms. I thought
that a Macports version would most likely be a gnu version, if it exists.
supposed to edit at this point? For
example 'man port' no longer finds 'port', so I suppose the search
path for man is not including /opt/local/man
Q3. Is there an info file for port? I can't find any.
Thanks
David Epstein
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Having recently upgraded from MacOsX 10.4.11 to 10.5.8, and run into trouble
with updating my MacPorts installation, Ryan Schmidt kindly pointed me to
the web page
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
This all worked fine, and the script restore_ports.tcl, available on that
page, worked
I have just installed Leopard 10.5.8, and then I did sudo port upgrade
outdated. This ran into an error on xorg-libice, and so I ran sudo port
clean --all xorg-libice, followed by sudo port -d upgrade xorg-libice, with
the following result:
Hottie:~% sudo port clean --all xorg-libice
---
1. What is the syntax for finding all installed ports whose name contains
tex?
Will this include both active and inactive ports?
I tried port search installed tex, but I think it treated both installed
and tex as search strings.
2. How do I uninstall a whole lot of ports simultaneously? And does
Brandon Allbery wrote:
May I suggest reading man port in a terminal window?
Thanks a lot for the patient replies from Joshua and Brandon. I did in fact
spend quite a lot of time studying man port before writing to the forum.
I'm sure the manual page is very clear to anyone who already
Here's what I get:
Tottie:/1local% port installed texlive*
The following ports are currently installed:
texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_2 (active)
Tottie:/1local% sudo port uninstall *texlive_texmf-minimal*
Password:
--- Deactivating texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_2
--- Uninstalling
I'm aware that there is a bug report out on texlive_base, but is there a
work-around? I'm rather desperate, as I stupidly trashed my copy of tetex
before trying to install texlive. As a result none of the tex family
programs are available to me, and I use them all the time. I tried the
version of
Perry Lee-2 wrote:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:17 PM, David Epstein wrote:
In desperation, I downloaded MacTex (not via MacPorts), and the
installation
seemed to go OK. But when I tried to use it, I got an error message
that
/opt/local/bin/pdflatex didn't exist. I was surprised
I have done a very small amount of editing of some configuration files in
/opt/local, and I suddenly realize that I should have been keeping a record,
because upgrading the port will delete my customizations. A specific file I
have changed is texmf.cnf in the teTex package, but I probably only
Rainer Müller-4 wrote:
David Epstein wrote:
What is the simplest way to compare the version of the file that I now
have
in /opt/local with the version of the file that I originally downloaded
on
installation? I want a method that is safe, with no danger of overwriting
my
current
Rainer Müller-4 wrote:
David Epstein wrote:
I tried the command port work teTex and got a null response, so i'm not
sure what this means.
The command only works after you ran 'port destroot'.
Where will the new version of teTex be downloaded to
by the command port destroot teTex
I learned from a bad experience that manual changes to files in /opt/local
are a bad idea. For one thing, new versions of ports are quite likely to
overwrite such changes. It was worse for me: the whole MacPorts arrangement
stopped working.
updmap is a command that comes with the teTex package.
Can someone say something about the general structure of /opt/local. For
example, what kind of material goes into share, and why is it called
share? Who is sharing it? I recognize src as source, but what is var
about?
Thanks
David
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Andrei Tchijov wrote:
Why bother with Mac port when R ppl have native mac gui?
I really wanted to find out how to search using port. Jesse Hamner showed
how to remove the regular expression part from the clutches of port, so that
the output from port list can be dealt with using standard
Does Macports have a port for the GUI for R, the statistical computing
program? Is it in fact possible to have a Macport supplying a MacOsX GUI
(not necessarily R) that is invoked by double-clicking on an icon?
My inability to use the port search facility efficiently became evident on
this
Chris Janton wrote:
On 2008-12-17 , at 10:46 , David Epstein wrote:
port list R* can't do what we want, can it? The shell tries to
expand R* to
match a file in the current directory, and otherwise exits with No
match.
If one shields R* from the shell with quote marks, for example
On doing port installed, I found many examples like this:
tcl @8.5.4_0
tcl @8.5.5_0 (active)
The first would not allow an uninstall because of dependencies. Is there
anyway to reasonably clean up the situation so that I end up with only one
version (the latest) of each port? But I suppose that
David Epstein wrote:
On doing port installed, I found many examples like this:
tcl @8.5.4_0
tcl @8.5.5_0 (active)
The first would not allow an uninstall because of dependencies. Is there
anyway to reasonably clean up the situation so that I end up with only one
version (the latest
Joshua Root-8 wrote:
David Epstein wrote:
On doing port installed, I found many examples like this:
tcl @8.5.4_0
tcl @8.5.5_0 (active)
The first would not allow an uninstall because of dependencies. Is there
anyway to reasonably clean up the situation so that I end up with only
one
Jeremy Huddleston-5 wrote:
Can you please see:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17429#comment:
I think if you pull in xorg-libX11 first, it'll be fine, but I need
someone to test that first...
I just tried sudo port upgrade installed (I should have said outdated
instead of installed,
I mistakenly did sudo port upgrade all, instead of sudo port upgrade
installed, and left my machine for 24 hours. It seems that a huge amount of
stuff was installed, which I now want to get rid of.
The first point I will make is that this has happened to other users before,
as one can see by
Bryan Blackburn-4 wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 02:26:45PM -0700, David Epstein said:
[...]
sudo port install exiv2
then gave me exactly the same linker/loader errors as before.
I think that looks the same as ticket #16728:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16728
There's
Bryan Blackburn-4 wrote:
[..snip..]
I think that looks the same as ticket #16728:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16728
There's a possible workaround listed there if you feel like trying it,
though I believe that workaround shouldn't be needed with a new version of
MacPorts.
Bryan
Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
Looks like you have a copy of gcc 4.2.3 installed in /usr/local.
Things installed in /usr/local often conflict with MacPorts so it's
not recommended to have anything in /usr/local while using MacPorts.
To see if this is the problem, rename /usr/local to
While trying to install gimp, I had problems with exiv2. So first I did
sudo port clean --all exiv2
Is this the correct command for removing all exiv2 files? This worked
without complaint. I then tried to install exiv2 on its own, with the
following results---I've collected together standard
My error message must have been dealt with somewhere in the list, possibly
many times, but I haven't been able to find it. I was trying to install
gimp:
sudo port install gimp
Eventually I got the error message
Target org.macports.configure returned: pango 1.22.0 requires glib 2.17.3 or
later but
Is there a macport of detex? This is a program that removes TeX control
sequences and comments from files. I thought it was part of the teTeX
distribution, and there is a port of teTex.
Does anyone know how I can get hold of this? Should I do it outside
/opt/local?
Thanks
David
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Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
unable to infer tagged configuration when trying to build apache2
is already filed:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13653
...[snip]...
Both tickets include lots of discussion. The apache2 ticket includes
patches which someone said worked.
sudo port -d selfupdate this passed, but with some warning messages that
I might try cleaning up some directory or directories manually; I paid no
attention to this
As apache2 was giving me trouble, I then did
sudo port clean --all apache2 --- this worked
sudo port install apache2 --- error
I get this error message with aspell
aspell -t -c cfs.tex
Error: No word lists can be found for the language en_US.
What do I need to download, to make the error message go away?
Does anyone know of tutorial pages for aspell? I'm finding it hard to get
used to the commands
(Headaches are:
This discussion has been way above my head. Can someone just give me the
bottom line:
I cannot get info to work. Here is some output:
hottie:~/1ActualSubmission% which info
/opt/local/bin/info
hottie:~/1ActualSubmission% info info
info: dir: No such file or directory
Can someone tell me whether
Gnu's version of fmt contains a feature that I need, and which is not
available from /usr/bin/fmt.
I tried port search fmt and got no relevant hits.
Is this available under MacPorts? If not how could I request it for
the future?
Thanks
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My first command: slocate slocate
slocate: fatal error: Could not find user database
'/opt/local/var/db/slocate/slocate.db': No such file or directory
My second command: which slocate
/opt/local/bin/slocate
My third command: sudo /opt/local/etc/daily.slocate
Rebuilding slocate database:
Following advice, I moved /opt/local aside and I have since been
having horrible problems.
I use latex and gv a lot.
It turned out that latex was in the old /opt/local (now /opt/
local.old) and I wasn't sure how to access it. I copied /opt/
local.old/bin/{selected items that seemed to belong
Paul Beard-2 wrote:
On 10/10/07, David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do I do now? Please keep it simple, if you can.
for i in gv latex coreutils with_default_names; do port -vc install $i;
done
You really will be better off rebuilding them all from scratch for a
couple
Paul Beard-2 wrote:
On 10/10/07, David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do I do now? Please keep it simple, if you can.
for i in gv latex coreutils with_default_names; do port -vc install $i;
done
You really will be better off rebuilding them all from scratch for a
couple
Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
Ok, so freetype wanted to use /opt/local/bin/gsed but it doesn't
exist. I don't have /opt/local/bin/gsed on my system either, and
freetype builds just fine. (I imagine for me it's finding and using
the system sed, /usr/bin/sed.) Perhaps you had gsed in your
Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
A-ha! Revelation! You have things in /opt/local that did not come
from MacPorts!...[snip]...
MacPorts likes to be in almost complete control of its prefix, likes
to know what's in it. (It's fine to keep some config files there, but
having other software
of the difficulties explained in
the first paragraph?
3. I am tempted to download the entire Darwinports/Macports tree, but
it looks as though this would take ages even without the manual work
described above.
Comments on these 3 points would be welcome.
Thanks a lot
David Epstein ([EMAIL
On 8 Oct 2007, at 08:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 8, 2007, at 02:37, David Epstein wrote:
I have just started using Macports and I wonder how to get round
the following annoying problem. Each port that I download
complains about a number of files (between 5 and 35
Paul Beard-2 wrote:
On 10/8/07, David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/
share/locale/locale.alias already exists and does not belong to a
registered port.
what does port provides /opt/local/share/locale/locale.alias
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