Installer fails but claim to succeed

Rasmus Mackeprang Rasmus.Mackeprang at cern.ch
Wed Apr 9 03:50:54 PDT 2008


OK, thanks. I did think it was an odd error to have in an install  
script.

Cheers,
/R :-)

On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:46 AM, William Davis wrote:

> 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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