port not installing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 8, 2018, at 19:50, M P wrote:
> 
> This is what happens when I issue 
> %portindex
> Creating port index in ~/ports
> 
> Total number of ports parsed:	0 
> Ports successfully parsed:	0 
> Ports failed:			0 
> Up-to-date ports skipped:	0
> 
> also 
> 
> %port version
> Version: 2.5.4
> 
> %which port
> /opt/local/bin/port
> 

The portindex command indexes the ports tree in the current directory; that output suggests you were in a directory that wasn't a ports tree when you issued the command.