Unable to install Berkeley DB v6: conflicting install ... how??

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-1-15 08:12 , Frederick C. Lee wrote:
> Greetings:
>      I'm attempting to install gtk2 which depends on db46; which bombed.
> So I've tried to explicitly install db46 confirm:
> 
> 
> [Users/Ric] > install -v -c db46
> --->  Computing dependencies for db46
> --->  Extracting db46
> Error: You have a conflicting install of Berkeley DB in /usr/local,
> please move it aside before building db46
> Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: Berkeley DB in /usr/local
> is in the way
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> Goodbye
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I had manually removed the Berkeley DB from /usr/local:
> 
> [/Users/Ric]ls /usr/local
> ActivePerl-5.8/          httpd-2.2.6/                      
>  mysql-5.1.22-rc-osx10.4-i686/
> CPAN-1.9203/           httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz                perl/
> apache2/                   include/                             php5/
> bin/                           info/                                  share/
> git/                            lib/                                   src/
> graphviz-2.14/            libexec/                          
>  svn_installer_backup/
> hermes/                     man/
> 
> --------
> 
> But every time I try to install db46, MacPorts always says db46 is
> blocking it from within /usr/local.
> But as you can see, it's not there!

No, we can't see that from the listing you've provided. There are
probably BDB headers or libraries in /usr/local/include or
/usr/local/lib (respectively) still.

- Josh