ports not working with sudo

Kaustubh Bansal kaustubh.cool at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 13:16:57 UTC 2022


I get following error

$ port -v selfupdate
Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 1:49 PM chilli.namesake at gmail.com <
chilli.namesake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try
>
> port -v selfupdate
>
> then try to install clang-15 again?
>
> > On Dec 9, 2022, at 07:40, Kaustubh Bansal <kaustubh.cool at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hi
> >
> > I recently installed MacPorts on my machine (MacOs Ventura 13.0)
> > Installation succeeded.
> > I then added /opt/local/bin to PATH
> >
> > I am trying to install clang-15.
> >
> > Command:
> > $ sudo port install clang-15
> > Message: sudo: port: command not found
> >
> > Command:
> > $ port install clang-15
> > Message: Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install
> prefix.
> >
> > Command:
> > $ which port
> > Message: /opt/local/bin/port
> >
> > Any idea why por does not work with sudo?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
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