Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg

[Scott Webster]

You have to be admin (i.e. su to your admin account).  And THEN use
sudo to run the port command.  I believe only admin accounts can use
sudo to get root permissions, which is what you need.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Stephen Langer <stephen.langer at nist.gov> wrote:
> Your root account doesn't have the right environment (path, etc), but your user account doesn't have the right permissions.  Since you probably don't actually have a root account, I don't know how to give it the right environment...
>
> It might be easier if you use sudo instead of su.  Use visudo to give yourself the same permissions as root when using sudo.  Then you can do root tasks from your user account, but only via sudo, so it's not as risky as actually logging in as admin.   sudo will use your environment, I think, but root's permissions.
>
>  -- Steve
>
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Potato Soup wrote:
>
>> Ok, tried that but now it doesn't even see what 'port' command is, it's 'not found'. I am new to OSX, although not quite as new to Linux. I am just not getting how OSX is managing these things. It is acting quite weird.
>>
>> From: Stephen Langer <stephen.langer at nist.gov>
>> To: Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 9:00:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg
>>
>> Try 'su -l'.
>>
>> -- Steve
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Potato Soup wrote:
>>
>> > I just logged in to my non Admin account and su'd to my admin account, and when trying selfupdate, it failed with:
>> >
>> > Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>> > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>> >
>> > It's almost as if su is not quite fully working. Weirdly when logged into my admin account, I still had to su. Maybe that's how it works on OSX? But this means that all commands to get things have to be done from an Admin session, and su is not enough? That doesn't sound right to me.
>> >
>> > From: Scott Webster <sewebster at gmail.com>
>> > To: Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com>
>> > Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>> > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:35:44 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg
>> >
>> > I "run" macports as a regular user... but when I want to run the port
>> > command I first "su" to an admin account and then run the port
>> > commands with sudo.  As far as I know macports requires full
>> > privileges to work properly.  Likely you could get something working
>> > fully as non-admin by installing from source and changing some
>> > options, but the installer assumes you want to put it in /opt/local
>> > etc.
>> >
>> > Scott
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > > Ok, I removed it, and then logged into OSX with an admin account and
>> > > reinstalled and then did selfupdate. Everything worked fine. So what's the
>> > > deal, how do I set it to work from a non Admin account? I never work in an
>> > > Admin account for fear of security issues.
>> > > ________________________________
>> > > From: Lenore Horner <LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net>
>> > > To: Potato Soup <potatosoupz at yahoo.com>
>> > > Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>> > > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 8:06:10 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: Broken install on new SnowLeopard machine with
>> > > MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Nov 17, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Potato Soup wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi I just installed the latest SnowLeopard Mac Ports
>> > > (MacPorts-1.9.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg) from the website, on my brand new 27"
>> > > iMac with SnowLeopard and latest xcode, and when running port, it fails
>> > > with:
>> > > dlopen(/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib, 10): no
>> > > suitable image found.  Did find:
>> > > /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib: no matching
>> > > architecture in universal wrapper
>> > >    while executing
>> > > "load /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0/MacPorts.dylib"
>> > >    ("package ifneeded macports 1.0" script)
>> > >    invoked from within
>> > > "package require macports"
>> > >    (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 39)
>> > >
>> > > I searched and all I could find was examples of people having this issue
>> > > when upgrading from older OSX versions, not a brand new SLeopard. I am
>> > > stumped and I now have a broken install. Any help would be greatly
>> > > appreciated.
>> > >
>> > > Did you bring anything over from a previous Mac?  If you did this in any
>> > > automatic way, you probably brought over your old /opt/local built for the
>> > > wrong OS.  If not, I'm stumped but I'm sure someone else will know.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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