permission errors with "port upgrade outdated"

[Pete Crite]

Ah.

Thank you, Dan. I'm a bit of a command-line newbie, unfortunately...

I was following the instructions at http://guide.macports.org/  
(section 3.1.14), which doesn't mention appending "sudo" at all.

Cheers.



On 16/04/2008, at 9:29 AM, Daniel Horwood wrote:
>
>
> On 16/04/2008, at 7:12 AM, Pete Crite wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm still having trouble installing Gnumeric, due to consistent  
>> crashes from python, but I attempted to do a "port upgrade  
>> outdated", just in case this would fix it.
>>
>> Now I'm getting a whole bunch of permission errors. e.g.
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: can't create directory "/opt/local/ 
>> var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_deve 
>> l_dbus": permission denied
>> Error: Unable to upgrade port: can't create directory "/opt/local/ 
>> var/macports/build/ 
>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_math 
>> _fftw-3": permission denied
>>
>> Probably something very simple?
>
>
> With nothing better to suggest than the obvious...
>
> Did you try "sudo port upgrade outdated" ?
>
> Dan
>



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