#17427: MacPorts 1.6 installation failure after Leopard hard drive replacement ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: equipoise1@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | Port: ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- I recently replaced a hard drive on my Core2Duo MacBook Pro. I had previously installed MacPorts on the old drive. After replacing the old drive and installing leopard, I had all of my Mac OS X user settings copied onto the new drive. I then installed Xcode and X11. Next I installed MacPorts on the new drive. Then I tried: port variants octave and port install octave This chugged away for a while but produced error msgs. The gist of these concerned Perl 5.8.8.something and the fact that /some/path/to/a2p is being used (is active?) by an earlier version of perl5. I've googled to some stuff about this, including the same error msg. This msg includes a suggestion about using the "-f" option. Question 1: Where do I read about the "-f" option, which I believe pertains to the "port" command, and information explaining other options? An hour of googling on this has been largely unproductive. I've also been unable to bring up a man page on "port". I believe these problems have to do with vestigial registry information from my earlier installation on the old drive. Now I'd like to revert my OS to where it stood after I installed it on the new drive but before I installed MacPorts. I'm concerned about losing things like gcc, which existed independent of what I've tried with MacPorts. Question 2: How can I remove everything related to MacPorts, including anything that it did install, while not endangering things that would have been come with the Leopard and Xcode installation I did? Question 3: Before removing things installed under MacPorts, is there a way to determine which of these components may be usable? Question 4: When I've purged the old things, should I be able to reinstall MacPorts according to the instructions in the guide, or will some alternative approach be required? Thanks. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17427> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS