How to get out of this foolish position?

[Jerry Rocteur]

		I rest my case ;-)

		Nice weekend everyone..


* Taka Fukuda <fukuda at computer.org> [2006-11-04 21:34]:
> At Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:32:01 -0800,
> Taka Fukuda wrote:
> 
> 
>     Hi,
>     
>     I am quite a new MacOS X user, and I happened to fall
>     into a very annoying situation as follows...
>     
>     When I tried to remove a package, I got
>     
> fukuda at quadra:~% sudo port -f uninstall perl5.8
> --->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8, the following ports depend on it:
> --->    p5-xml-parser
> --->    autoconf
> --->    automake
> --->    gnome-mime-data
> --->    vnc
> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
> --->  Uninstalling perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8
> 
>     It seemed that the uninstall was successful, but when I
>     tried to install it, I got 
>     
> fukuda at quadra:~% sudo port -f install perl5.8  
> --->  Installing perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8
> Error: Target com.apple.install returned: Registry error: perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8 already registered as installed.  Please uninstall it first.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> fukuda at quadra:~% 
> 
>     I repeated these commands with some other options, but
>     neither of them did not work.  I cannot
>     install or uninstall Perl, and this prohibits porting of
>     many other packages.
>     
>     Could you show me how to get out of this situation?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     
> -- 
> --                                               Taka Fukuda
> --                                    fukuda at computer.org
>     
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