Failure to port Octave

[Robert Fong-tom]

I manually removed the Aquaterm files and directories and re-ported  
Octave. I now seem to get past the aquaterm portion but this time I  
got the following error:

Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5 port.  Please deactivate  
this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: texlive  
texlive_base perl5.8 texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I suppose this is the same problem as before... but aren't there a  
number of applications in OS X 10.4 that use perl5.8? I don't want to  
screw this up by removing all the perl5.8 files. Should I take Ryan's  
advice and do :

sudo port -f activate perl5.8?

Or should I manually remove all the perl5.8 files and directory and  
start over?

On Nov 21, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2008, at 23:11, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:38:45PM -0500, Robert Fong-tom said:
>>>
>>
>>> I tried to port Octave using MacPorts the port failed because of the
>>> following error.
>>>
>>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/
>>> Frameworks/AquaTerm.framework/AquaTerm already exists and does  
>>> not belong
>>> to a registered port.  Unable to activate port aquaterm.
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnuplot  
>>> aquaterm gd2
>>> autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4 automake jpeg libtool
>>> pdflib gsed hdf5 pcre qhull texinfo lzmautils texlive texlive_base
>>> texi2html texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what this means?
>>
>> It's telling you that something/someone installed the AquaTerm  
>> framework
>> into /Library/Frameworks (not MacPorts, yet), and the aquaterm  
>> port wants to
>> do the same.  For safety reasons, MacPorts stopped at that point  
>> instead of
>> overwriting.
>>
>> Basically you need to figure out what it was that initially  
>> installed the
>> AquaTerm framework, and act accordingly.
>
> Possibly it was in fact the aquaterm port that installed it in the  
> past, and then the port was later uninstalled but the case of the  
> port name in the uninstall command did not match. The port name is  
> "aquaterm" but if you said "sudo port uninstall AquaTerm" then  
> MacPorts would claim to have uninstalled the port, but actually  
> didn't remove any files. This was a bug in 1.6.0 and earlier which  
> will be fixed in 1.7.0.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11759
>
> If that's what happened in your case, you can manually remove the  
> files it mentions, or (since there will likely be lots of them and  
> you'll be here all night removing files) you could tell MacPorts to  
> overwrite the files, using the -f flag:
>
> sudo port -f activate aquaterm
>
> The old files will still be around, just be renamed. You can leave  
> them there or remove them later if you like.
>
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