pls HELP: cannot use Macport after installation

[Yemi Adebiyi]

Hello all,

I am a new user of Mac. I got to know about Macport when I wanted to 
install NCL visualization program used in atmospheric science. Since I 
was addicted to the tools i was familiar with on Linux, I became a big 
fan of Macport.

Now the problem is that after installing Macport both from source code 
and otherwise, I cannot install any of the ports. The following message 
keep appearing every time i try: for instance this is to install "gv"

/Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Port gv not found
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>/

or ncview...:

/Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Port ncview not found
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>/

I considered doing the self update using the command: /sudo port 
selfupdate/. but what i had in return was this message:
/
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing 
MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for details)
/
I dont even know here the log is!

*please kindly help*. I use Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

Yemi
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