Install or use problem: no .profile created

[Joshua Root]

Joachim Oosnaabryg wrote:
> Am 10.12.2008 um 16:55 schrieb Joshua Root:
>> true that no single version of MacPorts/DarwinPorts will install in all
>> of the places given in the uninstall instructions.
> 
> OK, but neither =>/Applications/DarwinPorts \
> nor             =>/Applications/MacPorts \
> are there (I forgot to mention that in the last message)!

/Applications/MacPorts will appear when you install a port that provides
a .app, which will be installed there.

> To give full information, ls -a in /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 gives:
> 
> .                           macports_autoconf.tcl       macports_util.tcl
> ..                             macports_dlist.tcl               
> pkgIndex.tcl
> MacPorts.dylib          macports_fastload.tcl
> macports.tcl              macports_index.tcl
> 
> Together not more than 192 kB,
> and the MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg in my download directory has 580
> kB, the installer package MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg therein 620 kB,
> and it's content is:
> 
> .               Archive.bom     Info.plist      Resources
> ..              Archive.pax.gz  PkgInfo

The rest is installed in /opt/local.

> But I didn't find any file ».profile« on my HD..

That's a bug in the 1.6 installer:
<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#a.profilenotsetup>

- Josh