Installation Issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:11, Suresh Pillai wrote:

> I just installed
>
> macports 1.6
>
> on my macbook pro running
>
> osx 10.5/leopard
> xcode 3.0
> xquartz 2.1.3
>
> It took forever, which i confirmed to be due to long time rsync'ing  
> the tree.  It finally said installation successful, but when I went to
>
> sudo port
>
> it couldn't find port.  So I checked and there was no
>
> .profile
>
> created by the installation script.

This is a known bug in 1.6.0.

> I added the path manually, but I am concerned that other things may  
> have been missed by the script?? Specifically, is there anything  
> else in the .profile that should have been created. I just  
> installed 'unrar' fine ...

See the guide:

http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell