/usr/local/bin/lynx: Bad CPU type in executable

[Bill Cole]

On 20 Dec 2019, at 23:07, Michael Newman via macports-users wrote:

> MacPorts Version: 2.6.2
> macOS 10.15.2
>
> I installed lynx today and received the error message:
>
> /usr/local/bin/lynx: Bad CPU type in executable

That's a bad place for MacPorts to be installing lynx or anything else. 
MacPorts installs under /opt/local by default and if you force it to 
install in /usr/local you are asking for trouble.

Is it possible that your /usr/local/bin/lynx is a relic of some ancient 
time and a different machine? I ask this because I had that problem once 
upon a time. Before switching to MacPorts, I built a bunch of stuff by 
hand and had a /usr/local that started life on a Cube and ended its 
useful life on a G5 iMac before being moved to a Core Duo iMac, where it 
ultimately went bad because binaries built for a PowerPC G4 on 10.2 
simply will not run on a Core Duo on 10.6. The result of trying to do so 
(or to run 32-bit Intel code on 10.15.x) is the error message "Bad CPU 
type in executable"

> Is there anything I can do about this?

This by itself may fix your problewm:

   rm /usr/local/bin/lynx

You may also need to add /opt/local/bin to your PATH environment 
variable.

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