Oops - first apology necessary for the lack of a subject in my earlier mail. Blush. Sorry guys - I normally think more carefully before I hit "send"! On 8 May 2007, at 16:10, Paul Butcher wrote:
I'm relatively new to Macs, so please forgive me if I'm doing something stupid. I'm having problems installing ncurses with MacPorts. I get the following:
paul-butchers-computer:~ paul$ sudo port install ncurses ---> Staging ncurses into destroot Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: no such file or directory Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
port -dv gives me *lots* of output, but the last bit reads:
DEBUG: Executing proc-post-com.apple.destroot-destroot-0 DEBUG: delete: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate _dports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/opt/local/share /opt/local/var/ db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate _dports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/terminfo Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: no such file or directory Warning: the following items did not execute (for ncurses): com.apple.activate com.apple.destroot com.apple.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
I've tried doing a "port clean --all ncurses", but I get exactly the same thing afterwards.
I'd be very grateful for any pointers to what I'm doing wrong, or how to debug further.
Many thanks.
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