Macports Installation Error

[Chris Jones]

Ok, so you have macports installed in the default prefix.

If /opt/local/bin is in your path, and the port command is in that direct (??) then there is no reason why running port at the command line should not work.

Chris

> On 3 Mar 2019, at 5:00 pm, Ryan Grow <ryankgrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ahh... the mp prefix... is that the "/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin" that is listed twice
> 
> When I type
> >ls /opt/local
> the response is
> bin     etc    include lib    libexec man     sbin    share     var
> 
> 
> Ryan Grow
> ryankgrow at gmail.com
> 760-571-7844
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 8:46 AM Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please keep your replies on list.
>> 
>> Your PATH has the mp prefix in it(multiple times, so could be cleaned up...)
>> 
>> So what about
>> 
>> > ls /opt/local
>> 
>> ? 
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On 3 Mar 2019, at 4:36 pm, Ryan Grow <ryankgrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Chris - 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the response. I have restarted Terminal (and computer, just in case)
>>> 
>>> When I do echo $PATH, it returns /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
>>> 
>>> Ryan Grow
>>> ryankgrow at gmail.com
>>> 760-571-7844
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:22 AM Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Have you tried restarting Terminal, to get a clean new bash prompt ?
>>>> 
>>>> If it still does not work what does
>>>> 
>>>> > echo $PATH
>>>> 
>>>> > ls /opt/local/ /opt/local/bin
>>>> 
>>>> give ?
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> > On 2 Mar 2019, at 11:54 pm, Ryan Grow <ryankgrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > 
>>>> > I installed macports today and did not preload xcode before installing. Before testing any commands in the terminal, I installed xcode. But then when I tried the $ port version command in the terminal, and received 'bash: $: command not found' as a response. I added "export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH" and it did not change anything.
>>>> > 
>>>> > I tried uninstalling - but terminal does not appear to recognize any 'port' commands. Thoughts?
>>>> > 
>>>> > Ryan G
>>>> 
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