Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

William Davis frstan at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 10 14:02:50 PDT 2007


comment:  additional info avail via: port info XeTeX  (for example)

On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:

> I've shortened the list port spit out to what looked like the most  
> relevant entries.
>
> port search tex
> TeXShop                        aqua/TeXShop   2.09d        TeX  
> previewer for Mac OS X
> TeXmacs                        editors/TeXmacs 1.0.6.10     GNU  
> TeXmacs: A Scientific Text Editor
> teTeX                          print/teTeX    3.0          TeX and  
> METAFONT
> XeTeX                          tex/XeTeX      0.995        The  
> XeTeX typesetting system
>
>
> Lenore
>
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 3:33 PM, David Epstein wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Paul Beard-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/10/07, David Epstein <David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do I do now? Please keep it simple, if you can.
>>>
>>> for i in gv latex coreutils with_default_names; do port -vc  
>>> install $i;
>>> done
>>>
>>> You really will be better off rebuilding them all from scratch for a
>>> couple of reasons: 1. you'll have the newest versions and b. the  
>>> ports
>>> will be managed so you'll get upgrades and dependency issues taken
>>> care of.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
>>> <paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
>>>
>>
>> I successfully installed coreutils. I don't know what you mean by
>> "with_default_names".
>> sudo port install gv continues to give the mass of error messages  
>> that I
>> reported in my first posting in this thread.
>> port search tex| grep -v text gives lots of hits, but it's not  
>> clear to me
>> from the response what the name of the package should be in sudo port
>> install ????
>> I tried sudo port install tex and it replied no such package
>> Thanks for any help
>> David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk
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