Given this Portfile (its also attached): =========================== # $Id: Portfile 33667 2008-02-02 20:26:04Z rhwood@macports.org $ PortSystem 1.0 name transmission-x11 version 1.04 revision 0 categories net gnome x11 maintainers nomaintainer description Lightweight BitTorrent client long_description Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. \ It features a simple, intuitive interface on top of an \ efficient, cross-platform back-end. Transmission is open \ source (MIT license) and runs on Mac OS X (Cocoa interface), \ Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (GTK+ interface) and BeOS \ (native interface). \n\n\ This is the GTK+ version. homepage http://www.transmissionbt.com/ master_sites http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/ distname transmission-${version} checksums md5 7234c2e7c9855ea62768f89196f5913f use_bzip2 yes platforms darwin freebsd depends_lib port:gettext port:gtk =========================== why am I getting this error: =========================== Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ sudo port install Password: ---> Fetching transmission-x11 ---> Attempting to fetch transmission-1.04.tar.bz2 from http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for transmission-x11 ---> Extracting transmission-x11 ---> Configuring transmission-x11 ---> Building transmission-x11 with target all ---> Staging transmission-x11 into destroot ---> Installing transmission-x11 1.04_0 ---> Activating transmission-x11 1.04_0 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: transmission-x11 @1.04_0 not installed as an image. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. =========================== macports.conf on my system has used the image install type since whenever I began using darwinports way back when. My machine: =========================== Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ port version Version: 1.600 Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ uname -v Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Wed Oct 31 17:48:21 PDT 2007; root: xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_PPC =========================== Complete -dv log output is attached. -- Randall Wood randall.h.wood@alexandriasoftware.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."