port not installing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 15, 2018, at 20:48, M P wrote:

> Do you think cleaning up directories like below will help?
> 
> $ sudo port -fp uninstall installed
> followed by
> $ sudo rm -rf \
>         /opt/local \
>         /Applications/DarwinPorts \
>         /Applications/MacPorts \
>         /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
>         /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
>         /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
>         /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
>         /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
>         /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
>         ~/.macports

That would uninstall MacPorts completely. If you're ok with doing that, you could certainly try it. Since I don't know what's causing the problem, I can't guarantee that uninstalling and reinstalling MacPorts would fix it.