Installing recoll on mac os x

[Ryan Schmidt]

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:


> On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>>