[MacPorts] Notification: ProblemHotlist modified

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Tue Aug 5 21:45:45 PDT 2008



Changed page "ProblemHotlist" by ryandesign at macports.org from 99.128.124.11*
Page URL: <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist>
Diff URL: <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist?action=diff&version=34>
Revision 34
Comment: note that rsync permissions errors are normal when running postflight manually; reword surrounding passages

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--- ProblemHotlist (version: 33)
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 After a fresh installation of MacPorts 1.6.0, the `.profile` is not set up as it should be, with the consequence that the shell says the `port` command is not found when you try to use it. This is [ticket:13742 a bug in the 1.6.0 installer]. It will be fixed in the next release of MacPorts.
 
-To work around the problem, download the postflight script and run it manually, like this:
+To work around the problem, download the `postflight` script and run it manually, like this:
 
 {{{
 curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_6/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight && bash postflight
 }}}
 
-'''Note:''' Reopen your Terminal window after running the command! 
+This will set up your `.profile` for you. After the `.profile` is set up, the script will attempt to run `sudo port selfupdate` but will fail. This is normal in this case. Please ignore the permission errors the `rsync` process will print. When the script finishes, you should run `sudo port selfupdate` manually.
 
-You could also set up your `.profile` manually, as [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell explained in the Guide].
+To get the terminal to notice the new `.profile`, close your terminal window and open a new one.
+
+Instead of downloading and running the `postflight` script from the repository, you could set up your `.profile` manually, as [http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell explained in the Guide].
 
 == 5. man port fails with error message ==
 If you get following error message, when trying to access the man page for port or installed ports.

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* The IP shown here might not mean anything if the user is behind a proxy.

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