<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">port sync is what fetches in updates from the main repository. If you don't run this you will never get any port updates, so you should get into the habit of doing it periodically, then running `sudo port upgrade outdated` to actually update your installed ports.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>OK, that’s good to keep in mind for the future. I’m still a bit surprised that a fresh install was missing such an important dependency. The installation web page for the .pkg installer doesn’t mention it, and in fact implies that selfupdate does a sync automatically. I wonder if that failed for some reason, and I didn’t notice.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Noam<br class=""><div class="">
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