Installing recoll on mac os x

[james collins]

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On Jul 31, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:29, james collins wrote:
> 
>> If I type: 
>> 
>> sudo port install selfupdate I get an error, first my computer says:
>> 
>> ----> Updating the ports tree
>> 
>> Then it hangs on that for a little while, then I get the following error:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> Don't know what is wrong
> 
> Sounds like you're still having trouble retrieving the ports tree. Did you try any of the alternative methods of obtaining the ports tree? See below:

I tried http which failed with an error:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for details)
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I then tried svn, following the link to the website you gave me.

After making the directory and typing the commands into my terminal window. I believe my computer downloaded a lot of stuff i.e. There was an uppercase A on the left hand side of the terminal window and then things would just scroll by

I then edited sources.conf and added the following line:

file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports

I have a couple of questions

What do I do now? Run selfupdate? And if I do, how does that work does it update from the web or my computer?

Will this software be ready to use? 

Why didn't rsync or http work? Is there a way to test rsync or debug to get it working? Just kinda bothers me that they didn't work? I think they were working at one point?

Anyway thanks for the help, hopefully you can help further
> 
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> If that is what's in it, is there perhaps a problem connecting to rsync servers from your network? If so, you'll have to tell MacPorts to use some other method to get the ports collection, for example http, documented here:
>>> 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball
>>> 
>>> or svn, documented here:
>>> 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
>>> 
>>> Then try to selfupdate again.
>>> 
>>> 
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