Installing MacPorts

[William Davis]

On Sep 19, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Jason Nerida wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to MacPorts and have a question regarding install of MacPorts:
>
> How do I correct the PATH to point to the MacPorts path?
>
> I combined my .bash_login AND .bash_profile into .profile as
> instructed and also tried deleting them and leaving only .profile, but
> the PATH will not report the MacPorts path
>
> files:
>
> .bash_login:
>
> export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
>
> .bash_profile:
>
> export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
>
> # Setting PATH for MacPython 2.5
> # The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
> PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:$ 
> {PATH}"
> export PATH
>
> combined into .profile:
>
>
> ##
> # DELUXE-USR-LOCAL-BIN-INSERT
> # (do not remove this comment)
> ##
> echo $PATH | grep -q -s "/usr/local/bin"
> if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
>     PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
>     export PATH
> fi
> #
> # Your previous .profile  (if any) is saved as .profile.mpsaved
> # Setting the path for MacPorts.
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
>
> # Setting PATH for MacPython 2.5
> # The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
> PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:$ 
> {PATH}"
> export PATH
>
> export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sb <--------------------NOTE
>
> Thanks for any help with this,
>
> Jason
>

See note above. Is this line complete as shown? if so thats your  
problem, since it trashes all done before.