#40839: ghostscript-9.10 fails to install on snow leopard (10.6.8) -----------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: fessler@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.2.0 Keywords: | Port: ghostscript-9.10 -----------------------+-------------------------------- I had to clean macports and start over today and many of my ports installed fine but not ghostscript. I get the error: {{{ ---> Fetching distfiles for ghostscript ---> Verifying checksums for ghostscript ---> Extracting ghostscript Error: org.macports.extract for port ghostscript returned: command execution failed Please see the log file for port ghostscript for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Volumes_a2_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/main.log }}} the key part of the main.log file is {{{ :debug:extract Executing command line: cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Volumes_a2_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/work" && /usr/bin/gzip -dc '/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/ghostscript/ghostscript-9.10.tar.gz' | /usr/bin/gnutar --no-same-owner -xf - :info:extract /usr/bin/gnutar: ghostscript-9.10: Cannot mkdir: Operation not permitted :info:extract /usr/bin/gnutar: ghostscript-9.10/base: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory :info:extract /usr/bin/gnutar: ghostscript-9.10/base/szlibxx.h: Cannot open: No such file or directory }}} my hunch is that somehow it is a permissions problem related to the no- same-owner flag but i am just guessing. it fails whether i run it as root or using sudo. my other ports installed ok with sudo. i'll attached the whole main.log in case that helps... thanks! jeff -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40839> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X