The problem is that it refuses to recognize the uninstall command. I don't really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling macports because I have other ports installed on my machine and I don't want to have to wait until sometime tomorrow for everything to finish compiling. But if that is the only way to fix this php and uninstall issue then I guess that is what I will have to do. $ sudo /opt/local/bin/port -f uninstall pcre @4.5_0 Password: Error: port uninstall failed: invalid command name "portuninstall::uninstall" I am really sorry for taking up so much of your time but I appreciate the help. thanks, Evan On 6/2/07, Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa@macports.org> wrote:
On 2.6.2007, at 20.49, Evan Burrows wrote:
Here are the dependencies for php5 on my machine:
php5 has library dependencies on: libxml2 libxslt openssl zlib libiconv expat gettext tiff mhash libmcrypt curl pcre jpeg libpng freetype
When i originally tried installing php5 again it required a higher version of pcre than i had. so I deactivated the old version and installed the new version: The following ports are currently installed: pcre @4.5_0 (active) pcre @7.1_1+utf8
But I can't see to deactivate the 4.5_0 version because i get the error i stated earlier. I did a selfupdate yesterday and again this morning before trying to uninstall and install php5 but still had the same problems. Like I said earlier I have been able to install other ports so it isn't like my whole macports installation is busted. Just php5 is giving me an issue right now.
Hi, looking at this, I'd suggest the following: 'port -f uninstall pcre @4.5_0' followed by 'port activate pcre @7.1_1+utf8'. Good that other ports behave well!
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