where does macports installs programs?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:

> I have tried to uninstall root5 on the second mac, to see if by re-installing from scratch solves the problem, but I have the following error:
> 
> sudo port uninstall root5 
> ---> The following versions of root5 are currently installed: 
> ---> root5 @5.34.18_0+cocoa+gcc48+graphviz+gsl+minuit2+opengl+python27+roofit+soversion+ssl+tmva+xml (active) 
> ---> root5 @5.34.18_0+cocoa+gcc48+graphviz+gsl+minuit2+opengl+roofit+soversion+ssl+tmva+xml 
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry.
> 
> If anyone has any idea of what I'm doing wrong (or what could be wrong), I would be really grateful!
> 

Uninstalling and reinstalling root is probably not necessary, but because you have multiple versions of the port installed, you must specify which one(s) you want to uninstall. For example:

sudo port uninstall root5 @5.34.18_0+cocoa+gcc48+graphviz+gsl+minuit2+opengl+roofit+soversion+ssl+tmva+xml