Installer fails but claim to succeed

[William Davis]

just add the .profile path your self.
export $PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

the other directories you name
will be added when a port that uses them is installed.

On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Rasmus Mackeprang wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I am a new mac user (Linux -> Mac). I run OS-X 10.5.2. When  
> installing macports the promised .profile does not show up in my  
> home dir. Furthermore, when trying to uninstall as per the  
> instructions (http://guide.macports.org/#installing.uninstalling),  
> the locations
>
> /Applications/MacPorts/
> and
> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.*
>
> do not exist.
>
> Naively I would conjecture that the installer fails but claims to  
> succeed. The machine is brand new with Xcode 3.0 and the two X11  
> packages in place. Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Rasmus Mackeprang
>
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