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

[Frederick C. Lee]

Thank You for the insight.
I'll tend to it.
Ric.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 15:46, Frederick C. Lee wrote:
>
> > I followed your suggestion and moved: /bin, /lib & /include directories
> from the /usr/local to the desktop.
> > {I couldn't find which file was causing the problem so I moved their
> directories.}
> >
> > Then I re-installed the db46 (using force, verbose & clean):
> >
> > [/Users/Ric]sudo port
> > MacPorts 1.8.1
> > Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
> > [Users/Ric] > install -f -v -c db46
> > --->  Computing dependencies for db46
> > --->  Extracting db46
> > --->  Applying patches to db46
> > --->  Configuring db46
> > --->  Building db46
> > --->  Staging db46 into destroot
> > --->  Installing db46 @4.6.21_6
> > --->  Activating db46 @4.6.21_6
> > --->  Cleaning db46
> >
> > ... as you see, it went well.
> >
> > New /bin, /iib & /include directories weren't recreated;
>
> Correct; MacPorts installs into /opt/local, not /usr/local.
>
> > so I'll return the originals intact.
> > I hope there won't be further conflicts.
>
> Just be aware that it is not supported to have anything in /usr/local while
> installing anything with MacPorts because things in /usr/local can
> interfere. Some ports like db46 check for this but most don't and will just
> fail in strange ways. I recommend you get rid of what's in /usr/local, if
> possible, and install any software you need using MacPorts instead.
>
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