port installation failing

[Chris Ramos]

To whom it may concern,

I'm considering the daunting task of removing macports due to frustration
and time constraints. Frankly, I'm not even sure what I did wrong, but I
recently found myself needing to reinstall octave. I was initially using
the standalone package, but tossed it due to a failure to call gnuplot. So,
I tossed the stand alone gnuplot and aquaterm as well. I believe that
installing octave through macports would also make it automatically install
gnuplot and aquaterm.

I already had macports installed, but I tried to reinstall because I
thought I had too due to updating xcode. However, I now use filevault,
which means macports couldn't be installed in my user folder, which I think
means I now have multiple copies of macports installed.

When trying to install octave I get this:

sudo port install octave-devel +gcc45
--->  Computing dependencies for gettext
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ncurses
--->  Activating ncurses @5.9_1
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
/opt/local/bin/captoinfo is being used by the active ncursesw port.  Please
deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate ncurses' to force the
activation.
Error: Failed to install ncurses
Log for ncurses is at:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncurses/ncurses/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade flex failed
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>


I tried activating ncurses and got this:
port -f activate ncurses
Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.

I tried removing ncurses and I got this:
--->  The following versions of ncurses are currently installed:
--->      ncurses @5.7_0+darwin_10
--->      ncurses @5.9_1



Does anyone have any clue how to help me? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
ABD
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