unregistered files/modules

hat given by "man port"? 2. How should I proceed in the light 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. Comment

Re: unregistered files/modules

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) that are

Re: unregistered files/modules

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

Re: unregistered files/modules

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 softwar

Remove files

Does MacPorts have a version of rm that does secure removal of files (that is, scribbling over the disk so that info cannot be recovered)? I want this for files about my bank dealings---I'm not referring to files that come from MacPorts downloads. Does MacPorts have a version of rm that (un

Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

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 t

Re: Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

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 bette

Re: Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

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 bette

Re: Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

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 i

Re: Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote: > > > On Oct 10, 2007, at 14:21, David Epstein wrote: > >> 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/l

port of fmt?

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Trying to update the slocate database

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: slocate

Re: Trying to update the slocate database

David Epstein wrote: > > 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 > >

Re: texinfo doesnt function

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:~/<1>ActualSubmission% which info /opt/local/bin/info hottie:~/<1>ActualSubmission% info info info: dir: No such file or directory Can someone tell me whet

aspell and missing file with en-US

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:

Problem installing apache2

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 m

Re: libtool woes

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 wo

Re: libtool woes

Paul Beard-2 wrote: > > I am trying this regime: > > sudo port -f uninstall libtool > sudo port -f uninstall apr > sudo port install libtool > sudo port install apr > sudo port clean apache2 > sudo port upgrade apache2 > > port -f overrides any complaints > This worked for me on Mac Os X 10.

detex

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 -- View this mes

pango 1.22.0 requires glib 2.17.3 or later but you have glib 2.16.5.

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

loader error, uninstall fails

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 outpu

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

Bryan Blackburn-4 wrote: > > Check your Xcode version, make sure you have (since you appear to be > running > 10.4) at least 2.4.1 or 2.5. > Bryan > I have version 2.4.1 of Xcode. I am running Mac Os X 10.4.11 on an Intel Mac Pro. I have an alarming number of versions of libcc, though possibl

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote: > > All ports compile with Apple's gcc from Xcode, unless they include a > statement like "configure.compiler macports-gcc-4.3" and "depends_lib > port:gcc43" to indicate that they specifically want a newer GCC built > with MacPorts. exiv2 does not have these statem

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2008, at 02:10, David Epstein wrote: > >> Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> All ports compile with Apple's gcc from Xcode, unless they include a >>> statement like "configure.compiler macports-gcc-4.3"

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

David Epstein wrote: > > > > Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote: >> >> On Oct 20, 2008, at 02:10, David Epstein wrote: >> >>> Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> >>>> All ports compile with Apple's gcc from Xcode, unless they include a >>&

Xcode

My apologies for posting this message twice. But I thought someone might know about Xcode who wasn't reading the long and boring thread about my port install problems with exiv2. I downloaded the latest version of Xcode to each of my two machines. The download was xcode31_2199_developerdvd.dmg fo

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

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 /u

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

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: > > <h

Re: loader error, uninstall fails

Bryan Blackburn-4 wrote: > > [..snip..] > > I think that looks the same as 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.

graphics.sty

I did a find command on graphicx.sty and got /opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty /opt/local/var/macports/software/teTeX/3.0_4/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty /opt/local/var/macports/software/teTeX/3.0_5/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphic

sudo port upgrade all

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 sear

More than one version of a port installed.

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 wo

Re: More than one version of a port installed.

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 on

Re: More than one version of a port installed.

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 reasonab

Re: Error upgrading xrender on Panther

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 install

Re: R GUI

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

R GUI

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 issue,

Re: R GUI

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". >

structure and names of directories in /opt/local

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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/struc

manual changes in /opt/local

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. (

comparing a possibly altered file with the original

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 del

Re: comparing a possibly altered file with the original

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,

Re: comparing a possibly altered file with the original

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

texlive_base failed to build

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

Re: texlive_base failed to build

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/lo

gfmt and editing of system files

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 _

stat

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.

Errors building gcc44 under MacOsX

t;http://guide.macports.org/#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

Re: Errors building gcc44 under MacOsX

Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:00, David Epstein > wrote: > >> :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 >&

Re: Errors building gcc44 under MacOsX

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 ge

Re: Errors building gcc44 under MacOsX

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

Re: Errors building gcc44 under MacOsX

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 w

syntax for uninstalling. Can I use a regex?

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

Re: syntax for uninstalling. Can I use a regex?

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 alread

Re: syntax for uninstalling. Can I use a regex?

Here's what I get: Tottie:/<1>local% port installed "texlive*" The following ports are currently installed: texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_2 (active) Tottie:/<1>local% sudo port uninstall "*texlive_texmf-minimal*" Password: ---> Deactivating texlive_texmf-minimal @2007_2 ---> Uninstalling texliv

xorg-libice

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 ---> Cleani

restore_ports.tcl

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 without

MacPorts missing links

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 ___ macports-u

Re: MacPorts missing links

Thanks for your help: > On 10 Sep 2016, at 19:38, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Sep 10, 2016, at 1:42 PM, David Epstein >> wrote: >> >> I gave the command: >> >> ls -l /opt/local/bin/py* >> and the system replied: >> >>>

Re: MacPorts missing links

> 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 ran the suggested fin

Re: MacPorts missing links

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 start again. David Epstein ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: MacPorts missing links

ort. 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”. David Epstein ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: MacPorts missing links

n erase /opt/local and start again, or maybe there is a third choice. I would welcome advice from the list. Best wishes David Epstein ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: MacPorts missing links

11, 2016, at 1:13 AM, David Epstein >> wrote: >> >>> livm > ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: MacPorts missing links

On 11 Sep 2016, at 14:41, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Sep 11, 2016, at 4:13 AM, David Epstein >> wrote: >> >> For those few interested in this thread, and who have not followed so far, >> the relevant line of output from >> “port select —summar

Re: MacPorts missing links

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

Re: MacPorts missing links

> 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 > /opt/local/etc/select/python3/no

Re: MacPorts missing links

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 the

Re: MacPorts missing links

On 11 Sep 2016, at 23:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > >> On Sep 11, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 4:57 PM, David Epstein >>> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks very much for all your work on my issue: mu

Re: MacPorts missing links

> 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 /opt/local/lib/libpng.la >> >> They actually provided that earlier: >>

Re: MacPorts missing links

> 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 documentation system has a "por

rmtrash

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 se

webkit error

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 relevant to me. On giving the command sudo port upgrade outdated first a whole lot of installation and upgrading was done.

Re: webkit error

On 4 Dec 2013, at 12:06, Ryan Schmidt 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

Re: webkit error

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 Epstein wrote: >>> >>>> I don't use any of this,

Re: webkit error

On 4 Dec 2013, at 14:31, Ryan Schmidt 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 Sch

request change in macports documentation about downloading xcode.

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

Re: request change in macports documentation about downloading xcode.

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 wrote: > On Apr 25, 2014, at 04:39, David Epstein wrote: > >>

problem with selfupdate

and let me know if there is a workaround. Thanks David Epstein ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

uninstalling gimp

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 David Epstein ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org