Error after trying to upgrade installed

[Doctor Who]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 20:39, Doctor Who wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2009, at 20:18, Doctor Who wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not to be a pain, but I'm pretty new to MacPorts and I don't want to
>>>> mess my system up more.  Would you please outline the steps I should
>>>> take one by one to (hopefully) restore my system back to 'normal'?
>
> I meant to say earlier, but don't feel that you're bothering us: you've
> clearly found a problem and we need to first get you out of it and then
> figure out how to not make it affect others. Sorry this happened; I know
> it's not a pleasant experience, especially when you're just trying to get
> used to MacPorts. It's not usually like this. :)
>
>
>>> I'm not certain, as I haven't encountered this problem before.
>>>
>>> But my suggestion is exactly as I outlined above.
>>>
>>> 1. Edit /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf and change this line:
>>>
>>> #binpath
>>>
>>>  /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>>
>>> Remove the hash at the beginning and change the order so that it reads:
>>>
>>> binpath
>>>
>>> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>>
>>> 2. Deactivate your old gettext:
>>>
>>> sudo port deactivate gettext @0.17_3
>>>
>>> 3. Activate your new gettext:
>>>
>>> sudo port activate gettext @0.17_4
>>>
>>> 4. Uninstall coreutils because it is not a good idea to override the
>>> default
>>> Mac OS X file utilities:
>>>
>>> sudo port uninstall coreutils
>>>
>>> 5. Edit /opt/local/etc/macports/macporst.conf and put the binpath line
>>> back
>>> the way it was before, including the order of the paths and the hash at
>>> the
>>> beginning of the line.
>>
>> OK, when I get to the point of activating the later version of
>> gettext, it's not installed:
>>
>> tbook:~ who$ sudo port deactivate gettext @0.17_3
>> --->  Deactivating gettext @0.17_3
>> tbook:~ who$ sudo port activate gettext @0.17_4
>> Error: port activate failed: Registry error: gettext 0.17_4 not
>> registered as installed.
>>
>> What should I do at this point to install this version correctly?
>
>
> Try:
>
> sudo port install gettext
>
>

Also, does removing coreutils cause a problems with paths for tools
like 'ls' now?  How do I fix the paths so I can use the tools again?

tbook:~ who$ ls
-bash: /opt/local/bin/ls: No such file or directory