Error installing Cairo/ Pango/ ncurses/ port self updates and so on..

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 12, 2015, at 4:22 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
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> I suggest you use Disk Utility to run disk and permissions repairs, possibly with a verify first if you want to know which files will be affected. Then see if what you describe changes. It would also be useful to know whether either of these repairs take any action.

He is running El Capitan. Apple removed the option to repair permissions from Disk Utility in El Capitan. It's a pointless thing to do usually.

Repair permissions only knows what the permissions are supposed to be on software installed using Apple's Installer. Software installed using MacPorts is not installed using Apple's Installer so the repair permissions function will not affect anything installed using MacPorts.