Upgrade macports after a Lion upgrade

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Jul 24 14:34:06 PDT 2011


On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:33, Tim Schneider wrote:

> Somehow, MacPorts forgot all Ports I had installed, so whenever I tried to install anything it said something like:
> "file exists, use port -f activate xyz'
> force activating worked, but it was a pain, since I had to do it for every port, and it produced many old files in the /opt directory.
> 
> I also removed everything and reinstalled. Now it works fine.

Sorry to hear that happened. That should not have happened. Maybe something went wrong during the image/archive conversion process. Yes, uninstalling MacPorts completely and then reinstalling ports would be the solution. Glad that worked for you.




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