Re: perl error

2010-06-12 Thread John B Brown
My typo. It was the .gz perl-5.8.9.tar package. I chose that because of the apparent trouble with checksums in the .bz2 package. I installed it into the proper distfiles locations as a .bz2, having removed the .TMP file, gunziped the .gz file, and converted the resulting .tar file to a .bz2

Re: perl error

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 19:17, John B Brown wrote: > perl-5.8.9 refuses to download. > > j...@pinball3:~/MacPorts > (31): % sudo port install ghostscript > ---> Computing dependencies for ghostscript > ---> Dependencies to be installed: autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5 > perl5.8 m4

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Have found gimp help binary file gimp-help-2.6.0-html-zh_CN.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.gimp.org, it is a zipped file is this the right file to use as my present onscreen help is not working, see below. if so how do I get it into macports and where should it go. On 13 Jun 2010, at 00:18, J

Re: perl error

2010-06-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Jun 12, 2010, at 20:17 , John B Brown wrote: I went to http://www.cpan.org/src and downloaded the .gv package directly. How do I use that for the source for the perl port? Drop it into /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/perl5.8. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] al

perl error

2010-06-12 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, perl-5.8.9 refuses to download. j...@pinball3:~/MacPorts (31): % sudo port install ghostscript ---> Computing dependencies for ghostscript ---> Dependencies to be installed: autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4 automake cairo fontconfig freetype zlib libpixm

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
installed sudo port install gimp-user-manual, then when I tried to use onscreen help this message came up Could not open 'http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS? Any clues? On 13 Jun

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:49, John Essam wrote: > On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> There's the gimp-user-manual port. Not sure if that installs the same files >> that you've got there. > > how do activate the gimp user manual port Well, you can install it just like any other port, a

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
how do activate the gimp user manual port On 12 Jun 2010, at 23:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:39, John Essam wrote: On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have download

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 17:39, John Essam wrote: > On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: >> >>> Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp >>> help from source forge. >> >> What file did you download? > > It was

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
It was this one gimp-docs-2.4.1dmg is there already one in macports On 12 Jun 2010, at 22:09, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp help from source forge. What file did you download?

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 16:06, John Essam wrote: > Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp > help from source forge. What file did you download? ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http:/

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Hi Ryan, how do I install gimp help with Macport, I have downloaded a gimp help from source forge. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:38, John Essam wrote: > Just tried a self update, asked me for my password but won't let me put it > in, do i have to go into port mode first? It probably will let you put it in. Just type the complete password and press return. Nothing will be displayed as you type. Th

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Just tried a self update, asked me for my password but won't let me put it in, do i have to go into port mode first? On 12 Jun 2010, at 17:19, John Essam wrote: Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the best support I have ever come across with anything,

Re: MacPorts 1.9.0 Issues Continue

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:06, Ivan Kawaler wrote: > alloc: invalid block: 0x311c28: 0 0 0 > > Abort trap Are you using MacPorts 1.9.0 release or the tip of the 1.9 branch? The tip of the 1.9 branch works for me on Tiger where with the 1.9.0 release I experienced problems. > ---> Activating xo

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Some ports have optional features that can be enabled or enabled Make that "enabled or disabled". Also a port is not always called what you think it should be called; "port search foo" can help you locate ports. Ports don't always install the f

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 11:19, John Essam wrote: > Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the > best support I have ever come across with anything, free or paid for, spot > on. I wish I could help other in the forum but you guys seem way above what I > know. The gi

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Thanks Ryan and everyone, very impressed with all the help, to be honest the best support I have ever come across with anything, free or paid for, spot on. I wish I could help other in the forum but you guys seem way above what I know. The gimp program seems to work fantastically, much bett

Re: MacPorts 1.9.0 Issues Continue

2010-06-12 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-6-13 02:06 , Ivan Kawaler wrote: > While the libXfixes 4.0.5 have improved things, at least the errors > don't start occurring until a few seconds into the upgrade process, > upgrading continues to be an issue. Again, I tried to upgrade > xorg-libXcomposite and got the following during con

MacPorts 1.9.0 Issues Continue

2010-06-12 Thread Ivan Kawaler
While the libXfixes 4.0.5 have improved things, at least the errors don't start occurring until a few seconds into the upgrade process, upgrading continues to be an issue. Again, I tried to upgrade xorg- libXcomposite and got the following during configuring: alloc: invalid block: 0x311c28:

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 07:46, John Essam wrote: > Here's one of them I can't open > > > > > I've looked at a lot of the others there 58 in all and the one's I can open > are all empty like this one > > > I have no idea where these files came from. There is a port called "docbook-xml-4.5" b

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Here's one of them I can't open Verbook-xml-4.5 Description: application/applefile I've looked at a lot of the others there 58 in all and the one's I can open are all empty like this one Ver---ta--- Description: application/applefile The only other thing if it isn't Macport that

Re: /Applications/MacPorts

2010-06-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Jun 12, 2010, at 08:44 , John B Brown wrote: There was no /Applications/MacPorts on my machine. I completely removed MacPorts using the 'Uninstall' page and then reinstalled from the newly downloaded disk image MacPorts-1.9.0-10.6- SnowLeopard.dmg. There is still no /Applications/MacPorts

/Applications/MacPorts

2010-06-12 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, There was no /Applications/MacPorts on my machine. I completely removed MacPorts using the 'Uninstall' page and then reinstalled from the newly downloaded disk image MacPorts-1.9.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg. There is still no /Applications/MacPorts. Is there some other action I must tak

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-06-12 13:27 , John Essam wrote: > Many thanks Ryan and all concerned, all working fine now. Still have > all those single text files in HD/Users/Home user folder/shall I just > leave them or put them into one single folder and call it something ? I doubt they are related to MacPorts it

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 06:10, John Essam wrote: > Also since I have loaded gimp I have a load of single plain text files that > have appeared in HD/Users/Home File(picture of a house) what shall I do with > these? What are they? What's in them? To my knowledge MacPorts should not be creating ra

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Many thanks Ryan and all concerned, all working fine now. Still have all those single text files in HD/Users/Home user folder/shall I just leave them or put them into one single folder and call it something ? On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Found it Leonore thanks, On 12 Jun 2010, at 11:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore Horner wrote: On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I didn't hang around to check it. I have closed th

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Okay just to be sure I can download the gimp app at http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html is that right, to get a gimp icon to double click on that goes in the dock. Also since I have loaded gimp I have a load of single plain text files that have appeared in HD/Users/Home File(picture

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 12, 2010, at 05:24, Lenore Horner wrote: > On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: > >> Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I >> didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question >> but how do I open gimp now? > > Ope

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Dominik Reichardt
Am 12.06.2010 um 12:20 schrieb John Essam: > Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I > didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question > but how do I open gimp now? > > Many thanks John Hi, just for your information (and sorry, I'm

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread Lenore Horner
On Jun 12, 2010, at 5:20 AM, John Essam wrote: > Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I > didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question > but how do I open gimp now? Open the terminal. Type gimp at the prompt. Or install gimpap

Re: Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

2010-06-12 Thread John Essam
Hi Ryan, downloaded all the file for gimp, I think it was okay, although I didn't hang around to check it. I have closed the terminal, silly question but how do I open gimp now? Many thanks John ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@list

Re: inconsistent dependency information

2010-06-12 Thread Joshua Root
On 2010-6-12 08:03 , Scott Webster wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Joshua Root wrote: >> Probably the dependencies were changed without bumping the revision, and >> you installed before the changes. >> > > Thanks, this was it. Reinstalling the dependent ports updated things. > So, to s