Problem with uninstall instructions

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Feb 29 00:16:41 UTC 2020


On 27.02.20 00:50, kkh2 at cornell.edu wrote:
> I am using the uninstall instructions given here:
> 
>     https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html
> 
> I got as far as this command:
> 
>     $ dscl -p . -delete /Users/macports
> 
> 
> After I typed in my password, it responded:
> 
>     Data source (.) is not valid.
> 
> I am using macOS 10.13.6 (my hardware allows no higher version, and my
> finances allow no higher hardware).
> 
> What should I do?

I can reproduce the problem and 'dscl -p .' does not work for me either.
Therefore I replaced the command with 'sudo dscl .' instead.

https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/commit/5aa58c602c4a0a38965c497f17b7b474a347ad94

Rainer


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