question about upgrading port (getting errors)

[Evan Burrows]

The problem is that it refuses to recognize the uninstall command.  I don't
really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling macports because I have
other ports installed on my machine and I don't want to have to wait until
sometime tomorrow for everything to finish compiling. But if that is the
only way to fix this php and uninstall issue then I guess that is what I
will have to do.

$ sudo /opt/local/bin/port -f uninstall pcre @4.5_0

Password:
Error: port uninstall failed: invalid command name
"portuninstall::uninstall"

I am really sorry for taking up so much of your time but I appreciate the
help.

thanks,
Evan

On 6/2/07, Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa at macports.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 2.6.2007, at 20.49, Evan Burrows wrote:
>
> > Here are the dependencies for php5 on my machine:
> >
> > php5 has library dependencies on:
> >        libxml2
> >        libxslt
> >        openssl
> >        zlib
> >        libiconv
> >        expat
> >        gettext
> >        tiff
> >        mhash
> >        libmcrypt
> >        curl
> >        pcre
> >        jpeg
> >        libpng
> >        freetype
> >
> > When i originally tried installing php5 again it required a higher
> > version
> > of pcre than i had.  so I deactivated the old version and installed
> > the new
> > version:
> > The following ports are currently installed:
> >  pcre @4.5_0 (active)
> >  pcre @7.1_1+utf8
> >
> >
> >
> > But I can't see to deactivate the 4.5_0 version because i get the
> > error i
> > stated earlier.  I did a selfupdate yesterday and again this
> > morning before
> > trying to uninstall and install php5 but still had the same
> > problems.  Like
> > I said earlier I have been able to install other ports so it isn't
> > like my
> > whole macports installation is busted.  Just php5 is giving me an
> > issue
> > right now.
> >
> Hi,
> looking at this, I'd suggest the following: 'port -f uninstall pcre
> @4.5_0' followed by 'port activate pcre @7.1_1+utf8'. Good that other
> ports behave well!
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