Can’t Install FFMpeg

Richard Fairbanks lists at F-P-I.com
Fri Aug 20 04:16:14 UTC 2021


< 3.5 GHz, 6-Core Mac Pro (MacPro6,1) with 16GB RAM and D700 
GPUs, running macOS 10.14.6 >

Greetings, folks!

I just updated to MacPorts-2.7.1-10.14-Mojave.pkg, default install.

Terminal calls and results appended below sig.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Blessings, and thank you!,

Richard Fairbanks


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#### In Terminal ####
$ sudo port install ffmpeg
Error: Unable to execute port: couldn't open 
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_ffmpeg/ffmpeg/work/.macports.ffmpeg.state": 
permission denied

$ sudo port clean ffmpeg

$ sudo port install ffmpeg
Computing dependencies for ffmpeg
The following dependencies will be installed:
<snip>
Continue? [Y/n]: y
Error: See 
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_XviD/XviD/main.log 
for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you 
believe there is a bug.
Error: Processing of port ffmpeg failed

$ port clean --dist ffmpeg
--->  Cleaning ffmpeg
Error: error deleting 
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_ffmpeg/ffmpeg": 
not owner
Error: error deleting 
"/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_ffmpeg/ffmpeg": 
not owner
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The full, above-referenced log file, XviD/main.log, states:

version:1
:debug:main Starting logging for XviD @1.3.7_0
:debug:sysinfo macOS 10.14.6 (darwin/18.7.0) arch i386
:debug:sysinfo MacPorts 2.7.1
:debug:sysinfo Xcode 11.3.1
:debug:sysinfo SDK 10.14
:debug:sysinfo MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: 10.14
:debug:main dropping privileges: euid changed to 502, egid 
changed to 501.
:error:main See 
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_XviD/XviD/main.log 
for details.

   —> the last line “:error:main See . . . ” refers to 
this same file!



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