Hi Ferdi, No inconvenience at all; I'm just sorry Solfege on Mac isn't a smoother install yet. MacPorts is great when it works. (Because this is probably a problem related to MacPorts and not to Solfege itself, it would probably be best to talk about this off the solfege-devel list. So when you write back, it might be best to write me directly at allencmcbride (I'll leave off the last part to avoid spam, but it's a gmail address).
To answer your immediate question, I forgot to mention that you should put "sudo" in front of most MacPorts commands (any MacPorts command that updates or installs/uninstalls something). "Sudo" lets you run a command with root privileges, which is even higher than administrative privileges. So each of those commands should have been "sudo port uninstall solfege", etc. But I also thought of something else, which is that it might increase your chance of success if you updated all outdated ports. (Also, doing so will automatically reinstall solfege, because its portfile was updated in January.) So, if you have time, I would suggest the following two commands instead of what I said yesterday: 1. "sudo port selfupdate" 2. "sudo port -u upgrade outdated" Because many of your ports have probably been updated in the past couple months, this may take a long time (perhaps a few hours). So you might want to try doing it overnight. The commands I said yesterday would be quicker, but the more I think about it the more I suspect it's some other port besides solfege that's causing the trouble. Good luck, --Allen On 2/23/11 5:20 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Comment #4 on issue 217 by [email protected]: solfege shows no > letter/writing, only rectangles - "pango warning: failed to choose a font" > http://code.google.com/p/solfege/issues/detail?id=217 > > Hey Allen, > thanks for your help! > Now when i type in "port unistall solfege" it says: > > "Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using > selfupdate > Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix." > > I'm the only user (and administrator) of my laptop so this shouldn't > actually happen?? > What could I do about this? > Sorry for any inconvenience I'm causing... > > Best, > Ferdi > > > Am 23.02.2011 um 02:55 schrieb [email protected]: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Software Download: Index, Search& Analyze Logs and other IT data in > Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data > generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual > or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business > insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Solfege-devel mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Solfege-devel mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel
