problem installing latest (and older) Macports

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:57 PM, John Graybeal <jbgraybeal at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> I don't think I care about my old MacPorts installation, I just want a current one.

easiest thing then, would be to blow away the old installation and create a new one, see the instructions in the guide (especially the part that starts with: "To remove all remaining traces of MacPorts"):

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html

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