[MacPorts] #33571: Problems with "insufficient rights" to activate ncurses port. But I'm the administrator on my computer

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#33571: Problems with "insufficient rights" to activate ncurses port.  But I'm the
administrator on my computer
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 Reporter:  garrets@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  High               |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports              |     Version:  2.0.4                                
 Keywords:                     |        Port:  ncurses                              
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 The error in trying to install wine using the sudo command is below.
 Ncurses seems to be the problem.

 I tried evey line of code on the problem hotlist to try and fix it.  But
 nothing has changed.

 Here's my selection of code, with what I inputed in '''bold'''
 Garret-Schneiders-MacBook-Pro:~ garrets$ '''sudo port install wine'''
 --->  Computing dependencies for wine
 --->  Dependencies to be installed: apple-gcc42 flex gettext ncurses
 ncurses fontconfig freetype bzip2 zlib zlib freetype gnutls libgcrypt
 libgpg-error libtasn1 lzo2 pkgconfig glib2 libffi perl5 perl5.12 gdbm
 perl5 xz pkgconfig readline jpeg jpeg lcms tiff tiff libpng libxml2
 libxml2 libxslt mesa makedepend xorg-xproto py27-libxml2 python27 db46
 libedit openssl openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto
 xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libX11 autoconf help2man p5.12-locale-
 gettext m4 automake libtool xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto
 xorg-libXau xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto
 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto
 xorg-xtrans xorg-libXi xorg-libXext xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt
 xorg-libsm xorg-libice xorg-libsm xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto
 xorg-libXcursor xorg-renderproto xrender xrender xorg-libXinerama xorg-
 xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-
 xf86vidmodeproto
 --->  Activating ncurses @5.9_1+universal
 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
 /opt/local/bin/captoinfo already exists and does not belong to a
 registered port.  Unable to activate port ncurses. Use 'port -f activate
 ncurses' to force the activation.
 Error: Failed to install ncurses
 Log for ncurses is at:
 /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncurses/ncurses/main.log
 Error: The following dependencies were not installed: flex gettext ncurses
 ncurses fontconfig freetype bzip2 zlib zlib freetype gnutls libgcrypt
 libgpg-error libtasn1 lzo2 pkgconfig glib2 libffi perl5 perl5.12 gdbm
 perl5 xz pkgconfig readline jpeg jpeg lcms tiff tiff libpng libxml2
 libxml2 libxslt mesa makedepend xorg-xproto py27-libxml2 python27 db46
 libedit openssl openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto
 xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libX11 autoconf help2man p5.12-locale-
 gettext m4 automake libtool xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto
 xorg-libXau xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto
 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto
 xorg-xtrans xorg-libXi xorg-libXext xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt
 xorg-libsm xorg-libice xorg-libsm xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto
 xorg-libXcursor xorg-renderproto xrender xrender xorg-libXinerama xorg-
 xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-
 xf86vidmodeproto
 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
 To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>



 Garret-Schneiders-MacBook-Pro:~ garrets$ '''sudo port -n upgrade --force
 ncurses'''
 Password:
 --->  Cleaning ncurses
 --->  Uninstalling ncurses @5.9_1+universal
 --->  Cleaning ncurses
 --->  Computing dependencies for ncurses
 --->  Fetching archive for ncurses
 --->  Attempting to fetch
 ncurses-5.9_1+universal.darwin_11.i386-x86_64.tbz2 from
 http://packages.macports.org/ncurses
 --->  Fetching ncurses
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for ncurses
 --->  Extracting ncurses
 --->  Applying patches to ncurses
 --->  Configuring ncurses
 --->  Building ncurses
 --->  Staging ncurses into destroot
 --->  Installing ncurses @5.9_1+universal
 --->  Activating ncurses @5.9_1+universal
 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
 /opt/local/bin/captoinfo already exists and does not belong to a
 registered port.  Unable to activate port ncurses. Use 'port -f activate
 ncurses' to force the activation.
 Log for ncurses is at:
 /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncurses/ncurses/main.log

 Garret-Schneiders-MacBook-Pro:~ garrets$ '''port -f activate ncurses'''
 Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.

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