'No manual entry for port'

[Adam Neather]

Is main.log meant to be under /var/log? I can't find it.

I'm still running tcsh. Thought I'd just stick with it, seeing as it
was (briefly!) working. For confirmation, 'echo $SHELL' still returns
/bin/tcsh.

Thanks much everyone, I hope this isn't too frustrating.

On 02/05/2013, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 20:12, Adam Neather wrote:
>
>> In other news, I'm back to square one. I used 'sudo port install' to
>> get py-numpy and py-cython, but py-scipy failed.
>
> Ok, if you show us the main.log file maybe we can help identify why.
>
>> I rebooted the Mac,
>> and now I get 'No manual entry for port' etc. again.
>
> That suggests that your shell startup files don't contain the command to add
> the MacPorts paths to the PATH variable.
>
>> Even running the
>> setenv command that fixed it before isn't doing anything.
>
> It should, if you're still using tcsh. If you switched to bash, then you
> need "export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin/:$PATH". And unless you
> want to keep typing it every time you open a new terminal window, it needs
> to go into a startup file that the shell is reading. There are many startup
> files used by bash and tcsh; if you don't know which one(s) you're using, if
> modifying one doesn't work, try modifying the others.
>
>> This is painfully confusing. I've installed MacPorts a few times on a
>> couple of Macs, never had this much trouble before.
>
>
>


-- 
cheers much,

Adam