First port installation fails

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Richard Tobin wrote:
>> You can run `sudo port -f install p5-pathtools` and then try
>> installing firefox-x11 again and it should work.
>
> I did that, and it said:
>
> macpro$ sudo port -f install p5-pathtools
> --->  Installing p5-pathtools 3.25_0
> Error: Target org.macports.install returned: Registry error: p5- 
> pathtools @3.25_0 already registered as installed.  Please uninstall  
> it first.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

ok, so you actually need:

sudo port -f activate p5-pathtools

then sudo port install firefox-x11
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