Unable to install packages

[William Davis]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Julio Lajara wrote:

> Hi everyone, Im new to using Macports and am having a few issues.
>
> I installed Xcode and setup my .profile for accessing port from the  
> command line but Im unable to install any packages. It looks like it  
> cant find some macport components to compile/configure packages but  
> Im new to Mac in general and have no idea where to look to fix this.  
> I tried to install emacs-app at first but after that failed I just  
> tried a package with no dependencies and this is what I get:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sudo port install ncursesw
> Password:
> --->  Configuring ncursesw
> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
> shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7" && ./ 
> configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-widec --disable-rpath --with- 
> shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-safe-sprintf --enable- 
> sigwinch --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1
> Command output: sh: line 0: cd: /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.7: No such  
> file or directory
>
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
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This may have nothing to do with your problem but! did you do:

sudo port -d selfupdate

after you installed Macports?

William Davis
frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
Mac OS X.5.5 Darwin 9.5.0
XQuartz 2.3.2_rc1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple23)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz

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