Unable to activate port expat

Frank Schima macsforever2000 at macports.org
Wed Mar 18 08:04:16 PDT 2009


On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote:

> Whenever I try to install something with Macports on my Leopard, I  
> get the same error:
>
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
> local/lib/libexpat.0.dylib already exists and does not belong to a  
> registered port. Unable to activate port expat.
>
>
> Some idea of the problem?

Somehow your registry got confused about a previous attempt to install  
expat. That file is part of expat so I suggest the following:

sudo port -f activate expat


Cheers!
Frank



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