Please help.....

Altoine Barker ndiscreet at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 12:10:16 PST 2008


What shell are you working in?

-Altoine

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Christos Vlachos <christos.vlachos at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I would appreciate your help on the following problem. I want to uninstall
> MacPorts, since I installed it before installing X11 and Xcode. Now, the
> problem is that although I follow the command line below, I get the error:
>
> rm: illegal option -- /
> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
>        unlink file
>
> The problem is that I have not used any "--" in the terminal command. The
> command line I used is the following (copy+pasted) from the web page.
>
>
>
>  *sudo rm -rf \
>     /opt/local \
>     /etc/manpaths.d/macports \
>     /etc/paths.d/macports \
>     /Applications/DarwinPorts \
>     /Applications/MacPorts \
>     /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
>     /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
>     /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
>     /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
>     /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
>     /Library/Tcl/macports1.0*
>
>
>
> I would really appreciate your help on this. Is there any possible command
> line to solve the problem? Specifically, is there any command line that
> uninstalls the MacPort successfully under these circumstances?
>
> Thank you,
> Chris
>
>
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