<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 22, 2017, at 12:13, Simone Poli <<a href="mailto:simone.poli.01@gmail.com" class="">simone.poli.01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class="">dear mac port users, I’ve just installed mac port, but no commando can be executed on it, not even the sudo self update, no action is recognised:</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">MacBook-Pro-di-nicola-<wbr class="">travaglia:/ SimonePoli$ port</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">MacPorts 2.4.1</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Entering shell mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">[/] > sudo </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Error: Unrecognized action "port sudo"</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">[/] > </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class="">I would like to ask also if the mac port platform could be used as a virtual computer with the Lnux shell on it.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class="">thanks for the attention, </div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class="">Best regards,</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px" class="">Simone</div></div>
</div></blockquote></div>I’ve not tried using just port and then issuing commands.  I usually do things in one line<div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sudo port selfupdate</span></div></div><div class="">for instance.  I think you could do </div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sudo port</span></div></div><div class="">and then issue commands from within MacPorts as you are trying to do.</div><div class="">Lenore</div></div></body></html>