error trying to install p5.12-locale-gettext

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 18:12, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did all that.  I then did chown -R myuser /opt/local then did install and it worked (with no sudo).

Wait... do you want to use MacPorts as root or as myuser? If as myuser, did you compile MacPorts yourself and use the appropriate --with-install-user and --with-install-group options?