<div dir="ltr">Hi, <div>I haven't used MacPorts for a few years, and am trying to get it running under MacOS Ventura.  I do have the latest XCode, etc. .   I installed from MacPorts-2.9.3-13-Ventura.pkg . </div><div>The problem is that, running from the command line,  I have run into at least 10 different error messages all of which complain about permission denied when trying to write to one directory or another.   I've taken the approach of changing /opt/local/[lots of directories]  permissions to "read and write" for everyone,  but am unable to track down all necessary locations.</div><div>Since I don't think I should have had to change any permissions in the first place -- and yes I'm using sudo for nearly all 'port' commands -- what is going wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>example:</div><div>sudo port -f activate xorg-xorgproto<br></div><div>error message is </div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Warning: Failed to execute portfile from registry for xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">---><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Activating xorg-xorgproto @2024.1_0</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Error: port activate failed: mkdtemp failed: Permission denied</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="">This means I cannot complete 'port upgrade outdated'  , for example. </span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style=""><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="">thanks</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span class="gmail-s1" style="">Carl</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Monaco;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p></div></div>