Installing recoll on mac os x

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 30, 2011, at 20:36, james collins wrote:

> On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> The MacPorts disk image installer does install MacPorts into /opt/local; there is no option for it to do anything else.
> 
> I see the folder for macports in /opt/local/etc
> 
> But no folder in /opt/local
> 
> And then there is files in like /opt/local/var etc.
> 
> That is why I say macports is in /opt/local/etc

/opt/local *is* the MacPorts folder. Yes, it contains folders like etc, var, share, lib, include, bin, and so on, and those folders contain subfolders, and some of them are named "macports", and so on. This is normal.


> And I am getting another error regarding xapian-core
> 
> And I can't find xapian-core on my computer?
> 
> Should macports have installed it?

MacPorts should have made the xapian-core port recipe, and all other port recipes, available to you, by virtue of running "sudo port selfupdate", but apparently your selfupdate is having trouble, for a reason that we have not yet been able to figure out.

You are sure /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf has not been modified? It should contain several comments (lines beginning with "#") and then the following line:


rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar [default]


If that's not what's in it, put that in it, then try to selfupdate again.

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.