latex packages too old

[David Evans]

 On 9/26/10 9:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 19:43, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems that the latex packages is already 3 years old. I tried to
>>> 'sudo port upgrade textlive'. But it doesn't upgrade. Is the port
>>> outdated or there is something wrong when I update the package?
>> The current TexLive port is "texlive @2009, Revision 3".
>>
>> Have you run "port selfupdate" lately?
> I just run 'sudo port selfupdate' then 'sudo port upgrade outdated'.
> But I see the following error. How to 'deactivate this port'?
>
> --->  Computing dependencies for texlive-bin
> --->  Dependencies to be installed: poppler
> --->  Activating poppler @0.14.3_0
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
> /opt/local/bin/pdffonts is being used by the active xpdf port.  Please
> deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate poppler' to force
> the activation.
> Log for poppler is at:
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_graphics_poppler/main.log
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: poppler
> Error: Problem while installing texlive-bin
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
>
>
I think you can get poppler and xpdf to co-exist by doing this:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install xpdf +with_poppler
sudo port upgrade outdated