How to get out of this foolish position?

[Paul Beard]

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On Nov 4, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Taka Fukuda wrote:

>     Could you show me how to get out of this situation?

I find some incantations of deinstall and deactivate are sometimes  
required.

If you run 'port installed' what does it tell you about the state of  
perl? You might find a version issue that you can address with the  
full name of the port. Make sure the active version is the one you  
expect.

This is what I get:

port installed | grep perl
   perl5.8 @5.8.8_0+darwin_8 (active)

Or, failing any luck there, you can always cheat ;-)

cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/perl5.8/5.8.8_0+darwin_8  
(assuming your install is in the Usual Place).

remove the receipt for any versions of perl you find are blocking  
you, and then try to reinstall. Drastic, yes, but effective when I  
have used it in the past.


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