MacPorts Install Issue on 10.3.9

Christiansen Stephen stevebc3 at verizon.net
Mon May 19 13:33:40 PDT 2008


Ranier,

Thanks for getting me up to speed. I executed the referenced  
postflight script and all is well.

Steve
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Steve Christiansen
stevebc3 at verizon.net
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On May 19, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Christiansen Stephen wrote:
>> Listers...
>> I need some advice on an install of MacPorts for Mac OS 10.3.9.
>> I installed the X11 version indicated as appropriate for  
>> 10.3-10.3.9.  I then installed XCode 1.5 which is shown on the  
>> Apple Developer site  as appropriate for 10.3.9, and the MacPorts  
>> package for Panther. All  installs went fine but I'm unable to  
>> access the port command from the  shell, which probably means the  
>> MacPorts path is not being added.  Indeed, I can't even find  
>> a .profile file.
>
> This is a known bug: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13742
>
> Run this command [1]:
> curl -Lo postflight http://tinyurl.com/2qqbth && bash postflight
>
> Or you need to do it manually, see
> http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell
>
> HTH, Rainer
>
> [1] The tinyurl is pointing to <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_1_6/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight 
> >



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