problems installing MacPorts on OS Lion

Jason Swails jason.swails at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 08:41:57 PDT 2012


Open up a new shell and type this:

echo $PATH

Make sure that the directory "/opt/local/bin" is in that echo.  If not, you
will have to add that directory to your PATH.

HTH,
Jason

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore <
p.fabrizio.salvatore at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed MacPorts on my MacBook Pro (OS Lion); I've followed the
> instructions in http://www.macports.org/install.php (so downloaded Xcode
> using the AppleStore, installed it, launched it and then downloaded and
> installed MacPrts' dmg disk image). However, when I do:
>
> sudo port -v selfupdate
>
> at the end of the installation I have the following message:
>
> sudo: port: command not found
>
> Any idea why I get this? I'm trying to install MacPorts to be able to then
> install the 2011 version of telex, the LaTex distribution for Mac.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fab
>
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University of Florida
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