<div dir="ltr">Do you think cleaning up directories like below will help?<div><br><div><p class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><code class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-prompt" style="font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">$</code><span style="background-color:rgb(230,230,230);font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal"> </span><strong class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-userinput" style="font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><code>sudo port -fp uninstall installed</code></strong></span></p><p class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">followed by</span></p><pre class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-programlisting" style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(230,230,230);border:thin inset black;overflow:auto;padding:2px 5px;margin:2px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><code class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-prompt">$</code> <strong class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-userinput"><code>sudo rm -rf \
        /opt/local \
        /Applications/DarwinPorts \
        /Applications/MacPorts \
        /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
        /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
        /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
        /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
        /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
        /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \ </code></strong></pre><p class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><strong class="gmail-m_5218891047276565546gmail-userinput" style="font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><code>        ~/.macports</code></strong> </span></p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 1:03 PM Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Oct 14, 2018, at 12:09, M P wrote:<br>
<br>
> Yes, I did <br>
> sudo tar xvf /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar</a> <br>
> in<br>
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp</a><br>
> <br>
> and went fine<br>
> <br>
> the listing is attached<br>
> <br>
> but still <br>
> <br>
> sudo port install nco<br>
> <br>
> Error: Port nco not found<br>
<br>
Right, you won't be able to install ports until you have a ports tree and a portindex.<br>
<br>
I'm sorry, I don't know why MacPorts isn't able to untar the ports tree for you. <br>
<br>
You could manually untar the ports tree in the correct directory and then manually generate the portindex there:<br>
<br>
cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs</a><br>
sudo rm -rf ports<br>
sudo tar xf ports.tar<br>
cd ports<br>
sudo portindex<br>
<br>
But that would only be a one-time fix; the problem would happen again anytime you sync and you would have to repeat those steps.<br>
<br>
<br>
Or you could configure MacPorts (sources.conf) to use a source other than the rsync tarball. For example, you could fetch the ports tree from our GitHub repository. Since I don't know why you're running into problems with the rsync tarball, I can't predict whether you'll run into problems with other methods.<br>
<br>
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