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 <cahom...@gmail.com> 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 Now I did these things and then ran the selfupdate and upgrade outdated 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 <bhad...@gmail.com> 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 <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> >> 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. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
