Uninstalling Macports

Barrie Stott zen146410 at zen.co.uk
Sat Jun 25 06:15:45 PDT 2016


> On 24 Jun 2016, at 18:56, Bachsau <web at bachsau.name> wrote:
> 
> Barrie Stott wrote on 24.06.2016 19:10:
>> I am not experiencing any issues and am unsure whether I need to uninstall MacPorts. Can someone tell me if I need to uninstall Macports?
> 
> You don't. Just download the installer package from MacPort's website. Then you will be able to do a "port selfupdate" and "port update outdated". Most of the time this will work without problems.

Thanks for this. I did ‘sudo port selfupdate’ followed by ‘sudo upgrade outdated’ and, apart from needing a java SDK to be installed when upgrading db48, it went without a hitch.

I’m really grateful to both Daniel (J. Luke) and yourself for the help.

No reply needed.

Barrie.


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